Woodburn House, 54 Canaan Lane, Morningside, Edinburgh

Woodburn House is a classical villa built around 1820, featuring two storeys and an attic, with a rectangular plan. It has a single-storey wing and outbuildings to the north, along with a large modern single-storey extension. The exterior is constructed of cream sandstone, with an ashlar front and south elevation that includes rusticated quoins. The rear and side are made of coursed and squared stugged rubble. The ground floor is rusticated, with a band course above it, and a cill band course at the first floor. The eaves cornice is deep and dentilled, topped with a blocking course. The first-floor windows are architraved and corniced, featuring fluted panels on their aprons, while the dormer windows are segmental-arched and made of timber.

On the west (entrance) elevation, the villa has a four-bay layout with a single-storey north wing. There is a Roman Doric porch with angle pilasters, a frieze, a cornice, and a blocking course to the bay on the left of centre. It includes single windows with bracketed cills on the returns, a two-leaf panelled door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight, and single windows above on the first floor. The remaining bays have single windows on both the ground and first floors, with two dormers above. The flat-roofed north wing features two rectangular windows set in round-arched panels.

The south (garden) elevation is three-bay, with a central bowed bay containing three windows on the ground floor (with a central door added later) and first floor, along with a decorative cast-iron balcony on the first floor, a half-conical roof, and a dormer window. The outer bays have single windows.

The north (rear) elevation has a tall stair window to the left of centre on the first floor and a single window to the right of centre. There are two single-storey rubble-built outbuildings with piend roofs flanking a service court.

The east elevation features a large single-storey modern extension at ground floor, with a blocked window to the left and two single windows to the right on the first floor, along with a central wallhead stack and two dormers. The windows are mostly timber sash and case, primarily four-pane, with some small-pane glazing on the rear, side, and north wing. The roof is slate with lead flashings, two broad transverse stacks, and two roof lights to the north.

The interior was not seen in 1992.