The house that opens on Via Stabiana has a regular layout: the marble impluvium is situated at the centre of the atrium and on its edge there was an elegant table with feline-paw shaped feet, which today can only be seen in many paintings of the late 19th century during which the house, where the most comprehensive sculptural ornaments known then were exhibited (now in the Forum Granary), was a fixed landmark ; the peristylium with Doric columns is found in the rear part.

The marble portrait bust of the owner Caius Cornelius Rufus was originally placed at the doors of the atrium.

Date of excavation: 1766; 1855-1856; 1861-1863; 1893.