The first record of the Marata family dates back to the 13th century (1287), when they married into the Cartellà family. Throughout history, the building was owned by various noble families, such as the Dukes of Híjar, before becoming a country farmhouse in the 19th century.

The square, fortified, walled building has a large defensive tower. Moreover, the Marata complex contains a pit, a jail, a small chapel, and other rooms that are now independent houses.

The distorted round tower is topped with merlons and several embrasures with brick frames on the top part. With respect to the house, it has three stories and a partly terraced roof with the other part sloping down towards the façade. This is due to a fire in 1923 that damaged the second floor. In the restoration works, part of the upper terrace was lost. The openings on the ground floor are the large doorway with a double rounded arch with small voussoirs; the two windows on either side of the main entrance, with simple stone frames; and the embrasures at floor level, also framed in stone. The first floor has double-arched Romanesque windows and trefoil Gothic windows with a column, capital, and ogee-arched lintel. Like the tower, the house has a number of embrasures.