Allt na Reigh sold for more than £200,000. Photo: Paul Bisland CC-BY-SA-2.0

The Glencoe cottage that was owned by the notorious sex offender Jimmy Savile was sold for more than double its expected price.

Allt na Reigh in Glencoe was put up for auction with a guide price of £100,000 but the two-bedroom property fetched £212,000.

The single-story white building stands next to the main A82 road through the Pass of Glencoe and has commanding views of The Three Sisters and Buachaille Etive Beag.

Before the cottage was bought by the now disgraced television presenter, it was owned by Hamish MacInnes, one of the luminaries of Scottish mountaineering and mountain rescue.

Dr MacInnes still lives nearby in Glencoe village.

Allt na Reigh was intended to be used as an outdoor centre for disabled people at one point, but the charity involved disbanded after the furore over revelations of Savile’s offences after his death.

Auctioneers Ross Harper sold the property on Thursday evening at the Grand Central Hotel in Scotland.

The cottage is marked as Allt na Ruigh on 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey maps.