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It is a rustic villa of the ''ager stabianus'' located just under a kilometre from the plateau of Varano. It has an area of 400 square metres and dates from the end of the 1st c. BC. The quality of the paintings indicates that the owner was a wealthy farmer.<ref>Giovanna Bonifacio; Anna Maria Sodo, Gina Carla Ascione, In Stabiano - Cultura e archeologia da Stabiae , Castellammare di Stabia, Longobardi Editore, 2006. {{ISBN|88-8090-126-5}} p 36</ref> The most important works come from the [[triclinium]] such as the representation of Neptune and Amimone, Bacchus and Ceres and the Triumph of Dionysus.
The entrance includes a dog's bed. The atrium has a [[lararium]] dedicated to [[Minerva]]. The service rooms include a wine press, tank for the collection of the must and a wine cellar with twelve [[Dolia (vessels)|dolia]] with a total capacity of seven thousand litres. The rooms used for the storage of the crop and tools for working the land are paved in clay, while the residential area such as the triclinium, finely decorated with paintings in Flavian art, has tiled floors.
A seal with the letters ''MAR . A . S'' found during excavations may record the first name of the patron MAR, followed by the initial of the gens (family) A and then the word S(ervi).
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