OXFORD – The charred roof, partially collapsed, is no more.

The former Cozy Cat Country Store, attached to an old barn and ell on Route 26, has been demolished. Demolition crews finished the work last week, burning rubble and putting up plywood to mark where the store once was attached to the ell.

“They’re in compliance, as far as we’re concerned,” Oxford Town Manager Michael Chammings said Monday. Selectmen had declared the structure unsafe in September, five months after a May 5 fire raced through the store operated by Cathy Oleson.

Demolition work began on the property shortly after the September meeting, then stopped.

The property is tied up in Probate Court and questions arose over how the demolition would be funded, Chammings said at the time.

Under the state’s “dangerous building” statute, a town may order a building removed if the building is deemed to be structurally unsafe, unstable, unsanitary, or considered a fire hazard or a threat to the public health and safety.

The fire began in the back of the store and collapsed the old bow truss roof of the store, housed in part of an ell attached to the former Cummings family dairy barn. The barn and the part of the ell closest to it were not damaged in the fire.

The tenant in the barn, Kall-Us Antiques, has since relocated next to the Candle Place just up the road. Oleson’s business became Cozy Cat Redemption and relocated to the M & M Sales Building on Fore Street.