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
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 October 2007
- Type
- Boiler house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1946-48. 2-storey (set on sloping ground), roughly 5-bay boiler house with tapered multi-faceted chimney stack, crowstepped gables and steep, prominent roof. Squared, snecked, bull-faced red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; moulded band course at eaves continued around principal gable; projecting window cills. Long and short quoins and window margins.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION: prominent stack rising through centre of principal gable elevation (N) with rectangular-plan base and semi- hexagonal central section rising to 12-sided upper section; round-arched windows to each side in shallow-arched recesses with 2-leaf vehicle entrance doors at ground. Windows to side elevations. Earlier, lower piend-roofed range (fuel store) adjoining S gable.
Predominantly small-pane glazing in fixed timber lights with central tilting panels. Corrugated asbestos roof with slated easing course.
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