Bungaroosh

Bungaroosh (also spelt bungeroosh and other variations[1][2]) is a composite building material used almost exclusively in the English seaside resort of Brighton, the neighbouring town of Hove and in the coastal Sussex area.

[2] Its use dates from the start of the Regency period at the end of the 18th century, and into the 19th when Brighton grew from a fishing village into a large town.

[3] Bungaroosh is often found in buildings of that era in the town and in its near neighbours Worthing and Lewes[4] but is little known elsewhere except London.

[1][5] The manufacture of bungaroosh involved placing miscellaneous materials, such as whole or broken bricks, cobblestones, flints (commonly found on the South Downs around Brighton), small pebbles, sand and pieces of wood into hydraulic lime and then by shovelling it between shuttering until it has set.

This produced a consistent, regular surface which could be used to build the symmetrical façades required in Georgian architecture, a popular style in Lewes.