The capitals in Ionic style standing out in the porticoed garden help dating back the House of Pansa to 2nd Century BC.
It takes up the whole block: the majestic entrance leads to an atrium enclosed by several rooms. The sidewalk in front of the entrance is paved in colored stones and brick fragments.
An announcement surviving in a nearby alley is testament to the fact that in the last period of Pompeii the rich and powerful owner, a businessman from the Campania region, was renting out a part of the house.