Council bosses say they will work with the owners of the derelict house in Darlington's North Road Cemetery to bring it back into a state of repair.
The dilapidated house was sold in October 2023 on a long leasehold, with the council saying repair works were included as a condition of the sale.
But residents recently expressed concern on social media that the house remained in a poor condition, with holes in its roof and the windows boarded up.
A Darlington Borough Council spokesperson said: “A condition of the sale is that repair works are completed on the house, which was built in the late 1800s. We will continue to work with the new owner.”
It had also been on the market in 2021.
Pictures show the Grade-II listed house with metal shutters over the downstairs windows and doors. The house is overgrown with a number of trees and bushes and the upstairs windows have been boarded up, with one having been graffitied.
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The roof also has a number of holes in it, which could require extensive work.
The historic grade-II three-bed house was built in 1875 as a home for the cemetery keeper at the town’s North Cemetery.
Constructed in a stone gothic style, it has three bedrooms across two floors and an outside courtyard area.
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