Boiler House, The Crichton is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 October 2007. Boiler house.
Boiler House, The Crichton
- WRENN ID
- scattered-forge-evening
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 October 2007
- Type
- Boiler house
- OS grid reference
- NX 983 737
- Coordinates
- 55.04801, -3.59205
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Boiler House at The Crichton was built between 1946 and 1948. It is a two-storey structure set on sloping ground, featuring roughly five bays. The building has a tapered, multi-faceted chimney stack, crowstepped gables, and a steep, prominent roof. It is constructed from squared, snecked, bull-faced red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include a base course, a moulded band course at the eaves that continues around the principal gable, and projecting window cills. The building also has long and short quoins and window margins.
The prominent stack rises through the centre of the principal gable elevation on the north side, featuring a rectangular-plan base and a semi-hexagonal central section that leads to a 12-sided upper section. There are round-arched windows on each side in shallow-arched recesses, along with two-leaf vehicle entrance doors at ground level. The side elevations include additional windows. Adjoining the south gable is an earlier, lower piend-roofed range that serves as a fuel store.
The windows predominantly feature small-pane glazing in fixed timber lights with central tilting panels. The roof is made of corrugated asbestos with a slated easing course.
Local climate
Boiler House, The Crichton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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