roughcasting remains very popular in Scotland and rural Ireland, with a high percentage of new houses being built with roughcasting.

This exterior wall finish was made popular in England and Wales during the 1920s, when housing was in greater demand, and house builders were forced to cut costs wherever they could, and used pebbledash to cover poor quality brick work, which also added rudimentary weather protection.

Pebbles were dredged from the seabed to provide the building material needed,

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