Rolf Harris Home Auctioned

The Bray, Berkshire home once owned by disgraced former television entertainer Rolf Harris is reportedly set to go to auction after failing to sell at its original £4 million asking price.

The riverside property, which was inherited by Harris’ only daughter Bindi Harris along with the majority of his estimated £16 million estate, has been on the market for almost a year without securing a buyer. Industry figures had previously suggested the price was too high, and the property is now expected to sell for considerably less under the hammer.

Local estate agent Brian Warren, of Warren Property Matters, previously assessed the home’s value far below the initial listing.

“We actually looked at it and others on the same row. I originally said it was worth £2million.”

Recent images show the mansion appearing to have deteriorated during the months it has remained unsold, with moss covering parts of the exterior and sections of the structure reportedly crumbling. The house also includes several extensions added by Harris over the years, meaning a buyer could face costly rebuilding work, particularly given its location beside the River Thames.

Thousands of pounds were reportedly spent refurbishing the property in 2016 ahead of Harris’ release from prison on licence. However, the stigma attached to the address has continued to affect interest in the home.

Harris died at the property on 10 May 2023 after battling neck cancer, aged 93. An undertaker’s private ambulance was photographed outside the house where he had lived for more than six decades.

The Australian-born performer was jailed for five years and nine months in June 2014 after being convicted of 12 indecent assaults against four girls between 1968 and 1986. Some of the offences took place inside the Berkshire home.

Before his conviction, Harris had built a long career in British entertainment after moving to the UK in his early twenties. He first gained prominence through work with the BBC, including a regular cartoon-drawing segment on the children’s programme Jigsaw, helping establish him as a familiar face on television for decades.