manatbandq wrote:
I normally like to read the Jeff Howwell column in the Telegraph (web
version) but in todays issue he says "British houses have always been
built with timber stud partitions".

My early 70s house has brick or blockwork walls throughout, upstairs
and down. Should these be called something other than partitions, or is
he talking ********?

I think it's interpretation and terminology - a partition
wall just divides a larger space, and isn't vital to the
structure as a whole. Note, he says "have always been built
with", rather that "are always built with", with which I
can agree.