The fire at the Royal Clarence hotel has been burning for more than 48 hours
Structural engineers are to inspect a hotel later that has been devastated by a fire.
The blaze at the Royal Clarence Hotel, described as England’s oldest hotel, started at 05:00 BST on Friday and continues to burn.
The facade of the building has partially collapsed and its interior walls reduced to rubble.
Firefighters have extinguished the flames but said they were still dealing with some “hotspots”.
The shell of the building is being monitored with lasers to detect movement.
The fire broke out above the Castle Fine Art gallery where renovation work was under way, before spreading to the Well House Tavern, a cafe and the hotel.
Guests at the Royal Clarence were evacuated from their rooms in the middle of the night to another hotel nearby. There were no reported casualties.
A spokesman for the fire service said the gallery and hotel had been destroyed by the blaze, but its cause was unknown.
Fire crews used water from the River Exe hundreds of metres away to help tackle the flames. About 80 firefighters remain at the scene.
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