Brick partitions
The first example (below left) shows part of a property with one-brick thick external walls and an internal loadbearing wall, half-brick thick, in stretcher bond. The internal loadbearing wall supports the upper floor, the ceiling joists and the struts from the purlin roof. The wall is built on a shallow strip foundation (below right).
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