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

“The letter writer should have done his or her homework before moving into an apartment that shares a party wall with the gym,” said Joel E. Abramson, a Manhattan real estate lawyer.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2015

All that was visible from the street was a great high wall, apparently quite alone, no thicker than a party wall, with grated windows, to which iron screens gave farther protection.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John