Meanings
- uncountableA 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.
Disintegration of bungaroosh: Failure associated with lack of cohesion or excess moisture.
2015, David Watt, Surveying Historic Buildings, →ISBN2 more examples
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.
2011, Gilly Burton, Caroline Wallis, Brighton & Hove East Cliff, →ISBNFar to the south, another composite form of wall, using shuttering, was 'bungaroosh', used particularly in Regency Brighton and neighbouring areas on the south coast.
2012, Matthew Slocombe, Traditional Building Materials, →ISBN, page 65
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