party wall

Example Sentences

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As a result, the property wall was effectively a party wall, he said, and "needed to come down anyway".

From BBC • May 23, 2023

Another potential pathway for unintended air flow between adjoining apartments is the common or "party" wall, a shared wall separating two individual units that is typically not airtight from top to bottom.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2021

He said they were both in the bedroom at the time and his wife was still in bed, next to the party wall between the properties.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2020

He considers them “structurally interdependent because they share a party wall and aesthetically interdependent because of the rhythmic pattern of the different styles of the facades as you go down the hill.”

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2017

I should much have liked to climb to the top and see what was on the other side of our party wall, but I was helpless.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler