article_snippet: Campaigners are lobbying Cornwall Council to force the rectory's owner to make repairs .
article_snippet: The Victorian Society, which promotes the cause of 19th-century architecture, recently launched a campaign to save the listed building from the listed building 'shocking state of disrepair'.
article_snippet: Director Chris Costelloe said: 'Cornwall Council must take action now or this irreplaceable Grade II*-listed example of domestic Gothic Revival architecture will be lost. '
article_snippet: The society claims that Cornwall Council has been aware of the threat to the listed building for at least four years, but has failed to act.
article_snippet: Cornwall Council has the power to impose an 'urgent works notice' which would force the legal owner of the Old Rectory to repair the house, but Cornwall Council has done nothing more than try to talk to the legal owner of the Old Rectory.
article_snippet: A spokesman said: 'Cornwall Council is once again trying to make contact with the proprietors of the listed building to open a dialogue in regard to Cornwall Council current state.
article_snippet: As yet Cornwall Council has not had a response from the proprietors of the listed building.'
article_snippet: English Heritage has joined the calls to save the Old Rectory, calling English Heritage 'an incredibly important site and an architectural gem', and has been urging Cornwall Council to take action.
article_snippet: Inspector Simon Hickman said: 'The site is on our English Heritage South-West Heritage At Risk register and our are doing everything we can to ensure it is saved. '
article_snippet: Now the legal owner of the Old Rectory is no longer in prison we have advised Cornwall Council serve a repairs notice as soon as possible.
article_snippet: we have offered to underwrite a repairs notice and to support a repairs notice any way we can.'