EERIE drone footage has emerged of the former South Marston Hotel one month after a fire razed nearly all of the dilapidated buildings to the ground.

The overhead video shows the former leisure complex resembling something more akin to a bomb site.

The blaze tore through what was left of the buildings in July last year, with fire stations from across the county spending several days at the site on Old Vicarage Lane.

The film posted on YouTube shows how the former hotel and leisure club has been reduced to rubble, with only the shell of the main building still standing.

A security guard is shown standing on one side of the fence as the drone files over.

Police were forced to close their investigation into the blaze, which they believe was started deliberately, three months later

There was no word on plans to demolish and clear the site this week.

A month before the fire urban explorers filmed themselves roaming the decaying rooms and swimming pool complex.

A YouTube video also showed the intruders in the squash courts, reception area and leafing through staff log books.

The hotel closed in July 2016 with the loss of 45 jobs but the vandalised site was shown still with furnishings, discarded beds and smashed pieces of wall art.

The explorers also used drone footage to show the buildings, which once housed 60 bedrooms and hosted weddings and conferences.

The hotel shut down with administrators advising the site's owner, multi-millionaire businessman Paul Cripps, who is thought to live in Bermuda, on how to wind up the business.

At the time of the closure Mr Cripps was set to receive the hotel back to sell and potentially secure planning permission to build homes

Mr Cripps did not reply to requests for comment today/yesterday (TUE).

However last summer he told the Adver the former hotel would be demolished and handed over to a housing developer to build 70 homes.

Mr Cripps said at the time: “I can’t wait until we start knocking it down.

“it’s been a very slow process getting the planning permission but Swindon Borough Council have a criteria they have to meet.”