Is there a name for this?

[Summersdreaming]

Hopefully can attach a pic, is there an official name for this kind of brickwork in older houses?

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Not sure what you'd call it, apart from very 70s, but it's unlikely to be structural though may be hiding pipework. Looks to me as though there should be a fireplace or TV stand to the left of this low wall.

Thanks, this isn't mine but similar, I'm trying to find the best removal methods but struggling to Google as it's giving me results for exposing brickwork etc.

And yes mine has a fireplace with the same brickwork covering the chimney breast!

I think it’s called interior stone veneer/cladding. I’m not sure, but I don’t think it’s exported bricks, I think it’s a form of cladding or veneer.

www.doityourself.com/stry/how-to-remove-interior-stone-veneer

Honestly unless you know what you’re doing I’d not be messing with it myself.

Just 'feature stone'. I'd just use a sledgehammer.

It's stone cladding. Very popular for fireplace surrounds in the 1970s. Slim slices of stone applied to the wall (and often fronting a shelf / seat) a bit like tiling.

It's not structural so shouldn't be hard to remove and plaster over where it was.

Is it internal stone cladding, it looks more decorative than structural.

Excellent, thank you! Can't wait to get it off.

Decorative rustic stonework? Probably fixed onto plasterboard or similar. I'd remove a bit to see what was behind it.

Yeah I’d be careful it usually is applied to a cement board or similar and it’s glued on. It was a seventies phenomenon. So it’s been up there for fifty years pretty much.

Yep I'll go carefully, lots of builders in the family so will rope one in to help out too.

Wear safety goggles, flying chips of stone can be dangerous!

Fyfestone.