Boiler House, The Crichton

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.