Types of Party Walls
The Party Wall Act acknowledges two primary categories of Party Walls:
Party Wall Type A
A wall is a “party wall” when it crosses the boundary of two or more different landowners. A party wall may satisfy any of the following types:
- Part of a single building.
- Separates two or more buildings.
- “Party fence wall,” which is a wall that is not part of a building. Rather, it spans the boundary line between the lands owned by two separate individuals and serves the function of separating their lands. An example would be a masonry wall in a garden. However, wooden fences or hedges are not “party fence walls”.
Party Wall Type B
Also, a wall may be a “party wall” if it sits completely on one owner’s land but is used by more than one owner to separate their respective buildings. An example is one person builds the wall, and another person builds their building against that wall, but does not build their own wall. Only the portion of the wall that performs the function of separation is “party.” The portions to the side or above are not in the “party” portion.
The Act also uses “party structure,” which is a term used to refer to a wider range of structures as partition wall or floor partitions separating buildings or parts of buildings to which access is provided through separate staircases or entrances. So, for example, this definition may include flats.
Walls Excluded as Party Walls:
These walls may be made up of boundary walls, i.e. fence walls or garden walls built squarely on one owner’s land; also, external walls are not party walls – they are walls of a building run up to the boundary line, but the wall does not extend over that boundary.
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