Little Plumstead Hospital fire 'a suspected arson attack'

More than 50 firefighters worked to put out the blaze at the former Little Plumstead Hospital on Sunday

A fire at a former mental health hospital is being treated as suspected arson.

Fire ripped through Little Plumstead Hall, near Norwich, on Sunday.

These dramatic aerial images reveal the extent of the damage to the 19th Century building, which is now being demolished.

It had been Little Plumstead Hospital but had been derelict since the 1990s. Police said they believed the fire was started deliberately.

Little Plumstead Hall was built in an Elizabethan style in the 1880s and opened as a hospital in the 1930s

The site, which had stood derelict for several years, is being demolished