A former secondary school has been “left to rot” since shutting seven years ago.

Bill Darling, who visits abandoned and derelict buildings, took a look inside what was the Oasis Academy in Hextable to see what still stands.

The 35-year-old, from Rochester, had a request to explore the site in Egerton Road from a former student.

He said: “They asked me to go there to see what it looks like now because it's been so long.

“I started walking around with my little boy and security came out and luckily they were nice enough to let me look around and take pictures.

“It looked quite bad inside and it’s rotting but it was really, really big, there were a lot of rooms to go through.”

He documents his discoveries on his Facebook page Bills Explores UK.

The school, which was originally known as Hextable School, was built in the early 1970s to cater for students in Dartford, Swanley and the surrounding villages.

It was a secondary school and sixth form and taught students from the ages of 11 to 18.

In September 2013, it was taken on by Oasis Community Learning and converted into an academy.

But three years later in 2016 it shut permanently, with bosses saying the decision was made due to falling student numbers, which sets the level of funding schools receive.

Oasis said at the time that after reviewing projected figures with Kent County Council (KCC), the trend of student numbers looked like it was going to keep declining.

From this, it estimated that by 2018 the academy would be operating at only half its capacity.

Now, Bill said the site looks to be “abandoned” and the inside has been “left to rot”.

The welcome signage is still intact, although the former head teacher’s name has been scribbled out and some windows have been boarded up.

Classrooms appear not to have been touched since being stripped of equipment and furniture, and all the walls are bare with displays having been taken down. One wall had hole in it and parts of the ceiling had fallen in.

Bathrooms are dirty and some rooms have rubbish and wood dumped inside. Classroom cupboards and draws are empty.

Bill also took pictures of the old PE changing rooms, which are extremely run down and dirty, and only the wooden shells of the climbing frames in the former sports gym remain.

A KCC spokesman said: “There are no firm plans at the moment for the site of the former Hextable School.

“It is therefore being retained with the possibility of a need for an educational use at some point in the future.”