Firefighters are dampening down hot spots after a house fire in Gate Pā in Tauranga on Sunday afternoon.
The property on Ward St, Gate Pā was well alight by the time Fire and Emergency New Zealand crews arrived.
A spokesman said they were alerted to the fire in the "uninhabited" two-storey house shortly before 4.10pm.
Three fire trucks and their crew attended the blaze, containing it to the one property.