clunch

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His reassuringly expensive £25,000 shed has a wood-burning stove, dimmer switches, sofa bed, sheep’s wool insulation and is painted in muted shades called clunch, mouse’s back and old white.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2017

There is much clunch stone used in the interior and this is in a good state of preservation, but any that has been used externally has decayed.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

The whole, however, is of clunch, and, unfortunately, incomplete.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

An' I says, 'Tha'd better stan' on a bit o' clunch, then, an' hold it up wi' thy 'ead.'

From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

It is built of clunch, a local stone that lasts well for interior use, but perishes somewhat when exposed to the weather.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward