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Save a house, keep the roof on

AS a former architect and member of Hampstead Conservation Area Advisory Committee, might I tentatively suggest that removing its roof for 12 months is not the ideal way to preserve even a Wendy house, still less CBH Quennell’s Palladian masterpiece (The old house is still standing – just, July 26).
Should Steve Fitzpatrick’s heroic efforts to preserve the house finally fail, it must be some comfort to realise that the value of the empty site would be very much greater than £2 million.
MJ BENCH
Twisden Road, NW5

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