Woodcroft Including Stableblock, 39 Barnton Avenue, Edinburgh

Woodcroft, located at 39 Barnton Avenue in Edinburgh, is a villa built in 1909, designed in the Lorimer style. This two-storey building features an irregular plan and is constructed from squared and snecked cream sandstone with bull-faced dressings. The design includes long and short surrounds to the openings, with first-floor windows that break the eaves, and has swept and overhanging eaves, shaped gables, and dormer heads above the first-floor windows.

The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has five bays. It features an architraved doorway in the third bay with a boarded door and a six-pane fanlight above, along with a cartouche. An advanced shouldered chimney breast is located in the fourth bay, with a window offset to the left at ground level and a bipartite window further to the left on the first floor. The fifth bay contains single windows, with the first-floor window offset to the left, while the second bay has single windows and the first bay has single windows at ground level. An oculus is positioned beneath the eaves between the first and second bays.

The south elevation, facing the garden, has three bays. It features a round-headed doorway in the second bay with a two-leaf door that has small pane glazing and a fanlight above. There is a window on the first floor above this doorway. The third bay has rounded angles and is advanced and gabled, with a three-light bowed window at ground level and a window above on the first floor. The first bay has two windows at ground level, while the first floor has a single window above.

The north elevation has eaves that sweep down to the ground floor, with windows at ground level and a swept piend-roofed dormer. The east elevation was not visible in 1992.

The villa features small pane sash and case windows and a grey slate piended roof with a corniced ridge and gabled and wallhead stacks. Additionally, there is a single-storey stable block with a hayloft.