To provide a facing plate having a rugged pattern on the surface, preventing incompatibility in continuity of an outline pattern in the vertical connecting part of the facing plates in the case of regularly stretching the facing plates on the outer surface of a building in the vertical direction.

This facing plate is provided with a plurality of projections 2 of the substantially same shape formed at substantially equal spaces on the surface of the facing plate body 1 extending in the horizontal direction. When the facing plates are regularly stretched in the vertical direction on the outer surface of the building, the facing plates are stretched so that the lowermost projections 22 of the vertically adjacent facing plate bodies 1, 1 have the substantially same pitches. The height A of the uppermost projection 21 formed on the uppermost part of the facing plate body 1 is set larger than the height B of the lowermost projection B formed on the lowermost part of the facing plate body 1.