The authority is looking into potential breaches of the Town and Planning Act and could now take enforcement action.
A crowd of more than 200 gathered outside The Crooked House on Monday to watch the demolition, with some collecting bricks from the site.
Former landlord Tom Catton told the BBC: “To go from a standing pub to a pile of rubble within less than 48 hours is just crazy because surely, if there’s a fire, it needs to be investigated and looked at.”
This is the situation so far.
The Crooked House was built in 1765 at its site in Himley, in South Staffordshire, originally as a farmhouse before becoming a pub in the 1830s.
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