Two storey Victorian Boom Style mansion which faces towards the ocean, not the street. It was built in 1886 for Charles Thomas Saxton, a timber merchant. The house was originally set on a larger parcel of land and included a grand entrance, gardens and a conservatory. Early Coogee visitors could see the house up on the hill from the beach.
The house has a symmetrical frontage, with fourteen bedrooms, two verandahs, a circular mezzanine above the entrance hall, and a roof lantern. Saxon richly decorated the house with stained glass windows, pressed metal ceilings, cedar joinery, and three ornate wooden fireplaces. There is some evidence to suggest that architect and surveyor, Ferdinand H. Reuss Jnr., may have drawn the plans. Owner Mr V. A. McCauley subdivided the land in front of Roslyn and eliminated the grand entrance.
