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Thanks for the pebbledash advice all - funnily enough @Tenderloin that's the company I had bookmarked and was going to call for a quote! They seem to have a good rep.
@TW and @Señor_Bear - you're right about the risk of the brick being fucked, but it definitely a lot of people locally have had it removed successfully. Someone's just had it removed on the street we're looking at and it looks great. There's always the risk of render being the final result, but that would be better than pebbledash.
I actually think the bigger problem is the missing pieces of original stonework, those mullions, window heads and key stone would all presumably need remaking by a stonemason or similar (thanks for the terminology @Kurai because I have no idea what bits of houses are called!)?
Anyway, we went to view it today, liked what we saw and found out that after a day of being on the market we've got a cash offer at asking price - in the middle of a conversation with the agent about whether our offer would be taken seriously, so that was fitting.