Can anyone identify this type of brick?

[RenoKen]

Hello,

Looking into a 1930's house and noticed some cracks in the brickwork, can anyone identify the type of brick used and let me know any issues assocaited with it. The picture is below.

Thank you.

 

[opps]

Sorry awful quality photo.

I am not even sure that they are bricks rather than facing bricks/cladding.

That said, there are no properties like that where I live.

 

[noseall]

Hello,

Looking into a 1930's house and noticed some cracks in the brickwork, can anyone identify the type of brick used and let me know any issues assocaited with it. The picture is below.
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Thank you.

Egyptian block?

Considering ubiquitous modern day access to easy quality photography, that's the worst photo I've ever seen.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

The photo's good enough for me. It's these...

 

[JohnD]

It seems to be painted, making it difficult to identify the bricks.

I can't see the cracks

The name of the town, might give clues.

 

[RenoKen]

Hi, thanks for the responses so far. Sorry for the quality it was taken from a listing. I now have better quality pictures having been there in person again. Thanks for all your help

 

[^woody^]

You need help from a local surveyor

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I've never seen anything like them.

I thought they were just scored render at first, but they look like they could be actual blocks. Very big though. Are they cladding, perhaps over some sort of non-standard prefab or poured concrete? I was looking for a corner on that window reveal, and saw that they're installed at a very shallow depth, with a suspicious plastic trim up the edge of the reveal. What depth are the window reveals from the inside? The curtains look to be very close.

I'd like to see a corner of the building. I'm wondering if there's a seam line on the corner of that first blurry photo, indicating prefab panels.

Some movement there though!

 

[JohnD]

They look to me like Sandstone blocks, which would be expensive, so more likely a concrete facsimile, or perhaps an applied slip or tile

 

[^woody^]

I've never seen anything like them.

Book a day trip to Bath.

 

[opps]

Can you take a photo of a corner so that we can see the "bricks" from both sides.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Book a day trip to Bath.

That's an insult to Bath. That's obviously what they're attempting to look like, but I doubt that they're real stone or even blocks.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Tell us the depth of a window reveal from the inside too. I'm betting on some sort of prefab.

 

[jeds]

Probably cast stone blocks. You'll find dozens of different options from merchants around the Cotswolds and South West. Nothing specific to know about them. They'll suffer similar issues to any other face stone or block.