'Sharon', 8 Shillinghill, Humbie Children's Village

Probably designed by J H Cooper before 1906, "Sharon" is a single-storey and attic house with a rectangular plan and a polygonal tower, built in a Voyseyesque style. The house is harled with a red tile roof. It comprises two gabled blocks linked at right angles; the northern block has eaves that sweep low and overhang. The west elevation features a tripartite doorway to the right of centre, flanked to the left by a canted window and a small window, all grouped under the eaves of the south gabled block and intersecting the north block on the left. A tripartite window is in the gablehead to the left, with a further small window at ground level to the outer left. The south elevation incorporates a loggia at the centre, between a projecting rectangular section to the right and a two-stage polygonal tower to the left, with a timber balustrade to the balcony above the tower. Columns with entasis flank the loggia and sit on a harled parapet which continues as a battered base course around the tower and to the right. A door is located under the loggia leading to the tower, and another serves the balcony above. Windows are present on three faces of the tower at ground level, with blank faces between those in the upper stage, topped by a nursery rhyme weathervane. Two buttresses define the low north elevation, dividing small windows to the centre and left.

"Sharon" is considered the most interesting building in the former Humbie Children's Village, alongside the School and the Hall, although the design inspiration might be attributable to James MacLaren or Sydney Mitchell rather than Voysey. It is suggested that "Sharon" may have served as the model for the Village, as the land directly in front of it was selected for Stirling Boyd's memorial sundial.

The house forms part of the former Humbie Children's Village, constructed in 1906 in an Arts and Crafts style. The village was built to provide holiday accommodation for children with disabilities, and comprised separate cottages, a hall, and a school. Subsequently, it was used as a residential care facility before closing in the 1990s, and undergoing redevelopment into private housing in 2008.