Broome Cable House, Heritage building in Broome, Australia.

The Broome Cable House is a single-storey iron and timber building with wide verandahs, set in three acres of landscaped tropical gardens. Its prefabricated sections were shipped from Singapore in 1889 and assembled on land bounded by Frederick, Hamersley, Stewart and Weld Streets. The original kitchen building has been demolished, but its floor slab remains and now serves as the toilet block and store.

The Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company built the prefabricated iron and timber station in 1889, after volcanic activity broke the Java–Darwin cables and a third cable was landed at Cable Beach. The first paid telegram went to London on 9 April 1889. The station closed in March 1914 when the company moved its link to Cottesloe, and the government bought it for 3000 pounds, opening a court house on 6 September 1921.

The building served as a courthouse starting in 1921, hosting legal proceedings and community events in what was once a telegraph center. This shift in purpose shows how important structures in Broome adapted to meet the town's changing needs over time.

The building is located near Cable Beach and retains most of its original architectural features, making it straightforward to explore. The shaded verandahs and ventilated spaces offer relief from the tropical climate as you move through the structure.

The prefabricated iron and timber sections arrived in 1889 as deck cargo on the CS Seine, were offloaded onto a pearling vessel, thrown overboard in Dampier Creek at high tide and dragged across the mudflats by Chinese labourers who had travelled from Singapore to erect the building.