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Side wall

jlemos3450

Is there a specific term for the side walls of a building with no windows, doors or openings. Sometimes due to the demolition of an outbuilding, or waiting for a new building.

In Portuguese it is said "empena cega" (blind .....)

thanks

 
Dec 6, 13 4:21 pm
SneakyPete

Party Wall

Dec 6, 13 4:25 pm  · 
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bklyntotfc

@sneakypete...not to be a stickler, but...a party wall is a single wall that supports the floors of the building's on both sides of it.  In NYC we see this in older rowhouses where a developer  put up 20 buildings at the same time, and they shared a single wall between each one instead of building 2 independent walls right next to each other.  A party wall is normally built straddling the property line

I'd call this a lot line wall, but don't know that this is the official name for it.

Dec 7, 13 1:46 pm  · 
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gruen
No special name in English.
Dec 8, 13 2:57 pm  · 
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SneakyPete

Stickle away, I still am of the opinion that what he was asking about is a party wall.

"Sometimes due to the demolition of an outbuilding, or waiting for a new building"

"a single wall that supports the floors of the building's on both sides of it"

 

Seems like the same thing to me.

Dec 9, 13 10:21 am  · 
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won and done williams

In zoning parlance, we call this a "blank wall."

Dec 9, 13 10:57 am  · 
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