Yangjindang House, Sangju

Yangjindang House, Sangju, was built in 1626 by Jo Jeong, known by his pen name Geomgan, as recorded in the Record of the Reconstruction of Yangjindang. An inscription found on the ridge purlin further confirms that the house was renovated in 1807, the seventh year of King Sunjo. Overall, Yangjindang House is a raised-floor building with a square (ㅁ-shaped) plan, nine bays across the front and seven bays deep. The six columns set up at the front of the projecting eave-bay (toe-kan) are single, unspliced timbers, unusually worked square in their lower section and rounded above. Only the roof above the main hall's veranda has double eaves, the rest being single-eaved; whereas double eaves are usually formed by laying square subsidiary rafters (buyeon) over round rafters, at Yangjindang the main rafters themselves were squared to look like subsidiary rafters. The windows on the front of the main wing's three ondol-heated rooms and on the rear of its three-bay daecheong (open wooden-floored hall) are all yeongssangchang, paired lattice windows with a central mullion. This building belongs to the so-called raised-floor house type, and with its floor set more than a metre above the ground while still incorporating an ondol underfloor heating system — rarely found in raised-floor houses — it is a valuable example illustrating the diversity of Joseon-period house types. Its distinctive gyeopjip layout, with rooms arranged in two parallel rows, is also notable, and although its columns are made of thick timber, their corners are chamfered so as not to look coarse, showing a technical maturity that gives the building high historical, academic and artistic value.

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Sangju, Gyeongbuk

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Treasure · 보물