Our house came with a small pebbledash section, and it's even noted on the survey as requiring maintenance.
Or "Old man out" - indicating a "visit" would be appropriate !!!!Ah, now that brings back some memories
"Old Man Overseas"
From 14 years onwards I used to assist in my uncle,s Welsh dairy in London N7 as relief assistant for 2 weeks in the Summer - great fun doing the local milk deliveries then helping serve in the shop where is learned to cut cheese with a wire , slice ham etc and retail skills (told to over measure for some OAP's but charge "under" for some. Used a pair of catchers to bring down tins from higher shelves. (from the shop one could observe passing Deltics and 31's on block ender sets on the suburbans.........
Nice work, ‘knapped flints’ framed by brick, but a completely different technique to pebbledash. Quite common in Hampshire, allegedly the flints were common near the South Downs.
The newest pebbledash houses I've seen are the better part of 20 years old.
My sister-in-law in Scotland (Fife specifically) got a new build house which is currently I think 6 years old. It has pebbledash. The new builds they're putting up even today have pebbledash.
My house (mid-1950s build) used to have 2 gas pokers (one in lounge and other for boiler in kitchen) but these were needed to light the coke not cola fire as it was in a newly designated post war smokeless zone. Takes a bit of heat to get the coke to light. (On bayonet fittings)
I don't recall seeing pebbledash in any of the new estates I've passed recently in and around Dundee.
Maybe it's down to the developers then. But certainly in Fife a lot of them are coming with pebbledash still, even built in 2026.
There are bands of flints found in the chalk that forms the South Downs. Presumably equally common in the North Downs and the Chilterns, as they're the same stratum.
Yes, when we lived in the Chilterns estate agents selling both existing homes and new builds made a great thing about "brick and flint" finishes. Sometimes there was a substantial area of flint, but other times is was just a few token square feet.
Roughcast or harling is very common in Scotland, but it's not what I'd consider to be pebble-dash. Most new houses around here have some kind of roughcast finish, as does mine (built in the 80s).
