Many of his crimes were committed in the property
Jimmy Savile’s house in the Scottish Highlands has been engulfed in flames leading to a response from emergency services.
Police and fire services were called to the building in Glencoe, Scotland, at around 5:30pm on Saturday afternoon (8 February).
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We were called at 17:36 and have three pumps in attendance.”
A nearby road was closed due to the blaze before being later reopened.
A spokesman said: “The A82 is closed in both directions between Tyndrum and Ballachulish Bridge following a report of a fire at a property around 5.40pm on Saturday, 8 February, 2025.
“Emergency services attended and the fire was extinguished by Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
“Inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.”
The presenter lived in the property from 1998 until his death.
The paedophile’s home had welcomed the likes of King Charles, then the Price of Wales, for dinner in 1999, but has been left abandoned since Savile’s death in 2011.
The home featured in a Louis Theroux documentary ‘When Louis Met Jimmy’, during which Theroux spent a week with the BBC presenter in 2000.
The property was raided a year after Savile’s death after several victims testified to the horrors they had suffered at the hands of the paedophile.
It is believed he abused up to 20 victims in the house.
The house has been broken into and vandalised multiple times since being left to the elements.
Words such as ‘beast’ and ‘paedo’ have been graffitied on the building’s exterior, although the building has been whitewashed to attempt to deter vandals.
Following Savile’s death aged 84, the house was sold multiple times, being bought by Harris Aslam, the director of Green’s grocery chain, in 2021 for £335,000
The buyer intended to replace the cottage with a new build-family home.
However, these plans were scuppered after complaints were made about the contemporary design of the planned renovation which would “distract and detract from the immersive experience of travelling through a landscape that is renowned and valued across the world”, Leeds Live reported.
Since then, however, councillors have approved plans to see the building demolished.
They called the house “a stain on Scotland’s most outstanding landscape”, MailOnline reported.
