bungaroosh

English

Close-up of a bungaroosh wall.

Noun

bungaroosh (uncountable)

1. A building material composed of miscellaneous materials, such as broken bricks, cobblestones, pebbles, sand, and pieces of wood embedded in hydraulic lime, used primarily in the English seaside resort of Brighton.
   • 2011, Gilly Burton, Caroline Wallis, Brighton & Hove East Cliff, →ISBN:

     The properties in Charles Street are amongst the first purpose built visitor homes in Brighton. Like the local houses constructed before them and after, they are made in part of bungaroosh (a local Sussex name for flint and lime wall), brick, lime-plaster and timber.

   • 2012, Matthew Slocombe, Traditional Building Materials, →ISBN, page 65:

     Far to the south, another composite form of wall, using shuttering, was 'bungaroosh', used particularly in Regency Brighton and neighbouring areas on the south coast.

   • 2015, David Watt, Surveying Historic Buildings, →ISBN:

     Disintegration of bungaroosh: Failure associated with lack of cohesion or excess moisture.