One person was treated by ambulance paramedics for smoke inhalation at the scene.

Plans for the new East Cowes Fire Station on York Avenue were approved by the Isle of Wight Council last month.

The union said although the hotel was derelict, it was treated as a ‘persons reported’ fire because it had been occupied by a homeless person.

Emergency services were called to the hotel shortly after 6pm, with fire crews quickly tackling the blaze and preventing it from spreading further.

A blaze that tore through a derelict hotel in Sandown on Saturday evening (October 18) is being treated as suspected arson.

Crews from Newport, Ryde and Shanklin were mobilised shortly after 9.30pm following reports of a kitchen fire at the well-known shop and tearooms.