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Sandsend alum house is a seventeenth-century industrial structure located near Whitby in North Yorkshire. The site represents the alum manufacturing industry that flourished along the Yorkshire coast during the early modern period, when alum extraction and processing became an important commercial enterprise. The remains include evidence of the industrial processes involved in alum production, a chemical compound historically valued for textile dyeing and other trades. This monument documents a significant phase in Yorkshire's industrial heritage and the exploitation of local mineral resources during the Stuart period.
Sandsend alum house is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018140. View the official record →
Sandsend alum house is a seventeenth-century industrial structure located near Whitby in North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018140.
Sandsend alum house is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1018140.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of seventeen tumuli to the N of Greenlands Howe, on the east side of Sleights Moor (8.7 km), 'Pen Howe' tumuli (9.2 km), 'Greenlands Howe' round barrow, Sleights Moor (9.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Sandsend alum house's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Sandsend alum house stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.