The Dežderatovica or Dežideratovica house was named after its small internal courtyard exposed to rain. In Novigrad dialect one says “daždi” when it rains. Its name would be freely translated “where it rains in”.

It was built in the 18th century as an annex to the large complex of the Oštrić/Kapitanovi family, the house of the hereditary Novigrad serdars and capitans (commanders). In the first cadastral list of buildings from 1827, it was owned by the captain Ivo Oštrić, son of the late Jure. In the middle of the 19th century it was bought by the Novigrad merchant and landowner Jure Belan, son of the late Frane and finally his heirs sold it to Marko (Marketo) Oštrić/Zekić in 1877.

The Oštrić/Zekić family redecorates Dežderatovica into its current appearance and it served for their economic needs. During the distribution of ownership of the Oštrić/Zekić Family in 1962, it went to Grga Oštrić/Zekić, who sold it to the Novigrad General Agricultural Cooperative in 1966 and since then it served as a fishing cooperative depot until the end of the 1980s, after which it was abandoned. As a successor to the agricultural cooperative, Municipality of Novigrad owns it today.

The building has been extended several times. The first small annex with a low floor facing the south street had a "gate on knee" on the ground floor, which indicates trading activities. Subsequently, the roof was raised on the south side and the central part with a ground floor and a high attic was added, in which was the fireplace. The back part was a courtyard within which, along its entire width and length, a fire pit was dug in for slake and storage of lime.

Today, in Dežderatovica, the Maritime and Fishermen's Collection is exhibited. It was collected by Jadran Anzulović and created by separating it from the Ethnographic Collection