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Do the Victorian Half Houses in N15 have single brick party wall's? Wondering about the noise!
Does anyone know if the party wall's on Langham Road are single brick or half a brick with the joining house.
We are looking at a terraced Victorian half house on Langham Road and just wondering about the noise that can be expected from the joining house.
The vendor currently owns both halves and would be our neighbour which is fine, but just wondered if anyone had any experiences in this regard.
Especially with:
- noise up stairs (both half of the house have downstairs bathrooms
- cracking floor boards
- Smells coming through
- communal entrance door banging
- hoovering and washing machines
Any feedback would be welcome. Thanks
Tags for Forum Posts: noise, noisy neighbours
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Permalink Reply by LOUISA LIVERMORE on
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Hi, We live in an N15 half house. The only problem with noise comes from the stairs - it does sound as though someone is coming up your own staircase. No problems with anything else on the list - though we do have lovely neighbours!
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Permalink Reply by Elan on
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The Victorian terrace houses on Langham Road will have a double brick party wall. To check this you can look in the loft space; there is usually one or two bricks missing and if so you'll see the second layer of bricks.
Another way you can tell is by looking at the parapet. The parapet is an extention of the party wall that protrudes through the top of the roof at either side of the house. If the parapet is double brick, it would be very unlikely that a double brick parapet would be built on top of a single brick party wall.
From what you have written, I assume you are talking about a full Victorian terrace house next door to another terrace house that has been converted into separate ground floor and first floor flats.
(The party wall between the half-houses on Langham Road are different and that would depend on who/when it was converted.)
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Permalink Reply by Dee on
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Thanks for your feedback. I think everything should be ok then noise wise. Not sure if this helps, but its the joining wall down the middle that now splits what was once a full Victorian house. Illustrated in the examples below where the house shares a front door
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Ah! Ok, that is a half house. It is not likely to have a double brick party wall that splits the property. Most half houses were split many years ago and I don't know what kind of materials they would have used for the vertical partition.
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