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
A bas-relief in plaster of the Elgin marbles ran friezelike the full length of the party wall, and fixed immediately above the fountain niche the terrible mask of the Medusa face looked down upon us.
From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel