In its small dimensions (945 m2) the Casa dos skeletos can be taken as a paradigm of the Conimbriga apparatus residences: quality of the architectural plan, economy of means, emphasis on the decorative music program, intelligent use of the autonomous fraction of the construction. The analysis of the house, however, faces some difficulties inherent in the fact that the facade was destroyed with the construction of the low-imperial wall.

The main fraction of the house is articulated by an axis of canonical design (oriented to E / W), from the small atrium to the large triclinium passing through the axis of symmetry of the central peristyle. The peristyle gives access to six service rooms, to the North, beyond which there would be an open space, as an impasse, which would probably depend on the house (although with independent access from the street, effectively functioning as a service entrance.

A small corridor in the southeast corner gave access to a large cubicle, mosaic and a secondary entrance; furthermore, there is only a small division next to the entrance. A substantial part of the building's area was occupied by autonomous units, three of them likely cauponae or popinae open to the alley that divided the Termas da Muralha house, serving as access to their services, and a more complex one, with three divisions in a row. .

The so-called "skeletons" house is a good example of a prestigious private residence in which the entrance, peristyle and large dining room, are arranged on a central axis. Built at the end of the century. I early century. II, was decorated by mosaics in the century. III and demolished at the end of that century to build the wall. Subsequently, the area was occupied by a late-Roman and medieval cemetery that gave the name to the house.