On the dating, opinions are almost unanimous in recognizing the complex of Villa Morosini Gatterburg an eighteenth-century matrix, then misled by nineteenth-century additions and retouching. The southern building, on the other hand, would belong to a previous seventeenth-century settlement, built for the exploitation of the waters of the river where the wheel of a mill was also installed, now no longer existing.
This is then followed by another hypothesis that relates to this site a villa project, called "Morocco", commissioned by Leonardo Mocenigo to Palladio and published by the same in the Second Book of his treatise on architecture (1570). Unfortunately, the possibility of an initial construction of the building according to this model is not supported by any trace or reliable document, thus remaining little more than a fascinating supposition. Probably, however, precisely to the centuries-old events related to the gestation of the complex, are to be ascribed the irregular design of the estate and the anomalous configuration of the building system. In this case, in fact, we are not faced with the realization of a unitary project.
The complex articulation of the main volume indicates that it is a structure born for successive additions, as evidenced by the small asymmetrical courtyard that is created at the back of the building and that looks more like a resulting space than a real designed courtyard.
