[MassHistPres] If restoration is not according to code

[sylvia belkin]

I have clients who just bought and intend to restore a Richard Morris Hunt house. The balustrade on the port cochere is short of the current code height, and the spatial configurations too wide. How do  Building Inspectors typically rule in such cases? There is a door on the second floor leading onto the roof of the port cochere. They're willing to nail it shut if this will help. Any thoughts would be very helpful. Sylvia Belkin, Swampscott Historical Commission