40 Canaan Lane, Edinburgh

40 Canaan Lane is an earlier 19th-century, plain two-storey, three-bay house that has had a fourth bay added to the west and a large modern extension built in 1947. The exterior is made of variegated sandstone, with coursed and squared rubble and droved dressings.

On the south (rear, former front) elevation, there is a central doorway featuring a rectangular plate glass fanlight and a panelled door, leading to a small tiled vestibule. Above this door, there is a single window on the first floor. Each of the outer bays has a single window on both the ground and first floors, as does the later bay on the outer left.

The north (entrance, former rear) elevation has a stair window in the central bay with frosted glass and an etched glass border. The left bay contains single windows, while the right bay has single windows and a small modern entrance porch. A large single-storey modern extension with a mansard roof is set at a right angle to the later west bay.

Both the west and east elevations are gabled and feature apex stacks, with a secondary door on the east elevation. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing.

The roof is slate, with two apex stacks and one transverse stack, which was formerly a gablehead stack.

Inside, the hall has a flagstone floor, and there is a stone stair with cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail.

The property is enclosed by a tall rubble boundary wall at the front, rear, and sides, which has flat coping and a corniced ashlar overthrow at the pedestrian gate.