 The former Cable Station that now houses Laperouse Museum is a two-storey rendered masonry building situated on a grassy knoll of La Perouse Headland facing north overlooking Frenchmans Bay.The orientation of the building is attributed to the positioning of the telegraph cable which came ashore at Frenchmans Bay.Designed by the Colonial Architects office the building has a single storey veranda on its northern facade and a U-shaped plan.