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plans wrote that The Logs "...does not benefit from a great deal of natural light into its interior. Its frontage is orientated to the north east. The rear has a southwesterly orientation but a combination of factors mean that the interior often suffers from poor levels and quality of natural lighting". The council's planning department described the changes as "over-dominant and incongruous addition, detrimental to the character and appearance of the host building and wider conservation area". The designs were also opposed by the
Hampstead Conservation Area Advisory Committee (CCAC). The landscaping works planned to remove an existing summer house and three mature trees.
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Italian". Pevsner described The Logs as exhibiting "yellow, red and black brick and exscrecences in all directions, arches pointed and round, motifs Gothic and Frenchified, and a remarkable wilful tower with chateau roof'.
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