The expansive aged edifice dates backmost to 1899 and was erstwhile teeming with guests staying successful immoderate of the 97 rooms.

By Richard Ashmore, Senior News Reporter

20:38, Thu, Nov 28, 2024 | UPDATED: 20:40, Thu, Nov 28, 2024

Ocean Hotel, Isle of Wight

The Ocean Hotel has sadly fallen into disrepair successful caller years (Image: Local Democracy Service/ BBC )

A historical edifice successful 1 of England's astir desirable seaside locations is to beryllium fenced disconnected aft galore fires enactment the "local assemblage successful danger".

The Ocean Hotel successful Sandown, connected the Isle of Wight, was erstwhile a stunning illustration of Victorian grandeur connected on land loved by Queen Victoria herself.

The edifice boasted 97 rooms and a beauteous ballroom and attracted visitors from each implicit the country. But sadly aft years of diminution and devastating occurrence successful May 2021 near it structurally unsafe.

According to the BBC, firebugs and intruders person plagued the gathering ever since with the latest blaze ripping done the 3rd level of the gathering successful August.

Isle of Wight Council are present acceptable to usage exigency powers to wall-off what is near of the edifice with ample metallic sheeting to deter immoderate further break-ins.

Sandown Pier and Sandy Beach

Sandown Pier and Sandy Beach astatine Low Tide connected the Isle of Wight (Image: Getty )

Councillor Paul Fuller, furniture subordinate for planning, said: "This protective measurement is simply a important and affirmative measurement guardant to trim anti-social behaviour portion we proceed to enactment towards a longer word solution for this property.

"Our determination to usage exigency powers to unafraid the gathering against unauthorised introduction reflects the value and seriousness of the situation.

"Intruders are not lone putting themselves and the section assemblage successful danger, they are besides risking the information of our exigency services who are called determination regularly."

Ocean Hotel successful Sandown

The historical edifice has been declared a information by the authorities (Image: Google Street View )

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A spate of fires astatine the erstwhile edifice successful August saw 3 arrests. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary told the BBC its probe into the fires was ongoing.

The edifice makes for an imposing beingness successful Sandown arsenic it sits successful a premier determination connected the Esplanade overlooking Sandown Beach not acold from the celebrated Sandown Pier.

In February this twelvemonth the Environment Agency (EA) lowered the oversea h2o prime standing astatine Sandown formation from fantabulous to good

The ruling from the EA meant the municipality missed retired connected the coveted Blue Flag grant aft E. coli h2o prime issues were raised.