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The paedophile TV star Rolf Harris's former mansion is set to be auctioned off for just a fraction of its asking price after the house failed to find a buyer.
The house where the disgraced TV presenter carried out his heinous crimes went on the market almost a year ago for £4million.
But since then, the house has failed to secure a buyer and will be sold at auction for a significantly lower price.
As well as the connection to the infamous paedophile, the house has fallen into disrepair during the year it has been on the market.
Photos show the house in Bray, Berkshire, covered in moss with some of the walls decaying. Rust has taken over the front gate, which is hanging off its hinges.
Some of the windows appear cracked too.
In 2017, the neighbours of the convicted paedophile were reported to be putting their multimillion-pound riverside homes up for sale after Harris returned home from prison.
A year earlier, Harris's riverside home was pictured receiving a makeover as thousands of pounds were spent renovating the mansion in preparation for his return from prison.
Photos show Rolf Harris's former mansion in Bray, Berkshire covered in moss with some of the walls decaying
The house, where the disgraced TV presenter carried out his heinous crimes, went on the market almost a year ago for £4million
Rolf Harris leaves Southwark Crown Court, with his wife Alwen, after being found guilty of 12 sex charges involving four women in June 2020
Workmen were seen replacing a large patio and the Berkshire home's drive was also dug up and the back garden was revamped.
In May 2023, an undertaker's private ambulance was photographed outside his home after Harris died aged 93 there on May 10.
Estate agent Brian Warren, of Warren Property Matters, told The Sun that the property would need up to £2million in renovations to make it liveable.
He said: 'Because of what’s attached to it, there’s not many people that would go in there and refurb it would they?
'It’s got the stigma attached to it. Who’s going to buy it?'
He added that the property was only fit to be demolished and rebuilt.
Harris's mansion sits in a village populated by celebrities such as Sir Michael Caine, Heston Blumenthal and the late Sir Michael Parkinson, who have all reportedly lived there.
The house was modelled after Harris's childhood Australian house in Perth, Western Australia.
The former children’s entertainer was jailed in July 2014 for five years and nine months after being found guilty of a dozen indecent assaults against four young girls
His crimes took place between 1968 and 1986, and some of these assaults occurred inside his Berkshire home
Rust has taken over the front gate, which is hanging off its hinges
The former children’s entertainer was jailed in July 2014 for five years and nine months after being found guilty of a dozen indecent assaults against four young girls.
His crimes took place between 1968 and 1986, and some of these assaults occurred inside his Berkshire home.
In one instance it was reported that Harris sexually assaulted one of his daughter's friends when she was aged between 13 and 19.
He was said to have performed a sex act on her while his daughter slept in another room at the family home.
Harris rose to fame in his early 20s when he moved to England, became an art student and found work in television at the BBC, performing a regular ten-minute cartoon drawing section in a children's show - Jigsaw.
He went on to illustrate Harbin's Paper Magic programme in 1956 and quickly became a regular on other BBC television shows.
Harris moved back to Australia in 1959 and tried his hand as an actor, before inventing the wobbleboard - and used it in his song 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport'.