Bak Yong-won’s House, Jecheon

This is a large farmhouse-style dwelling, with an L-shaped anchae (main house), sarangchae (men's quarters), lower quarters, a middle-gate building and a shed forming a single compound. Records found in the anchae indicate that it was built in 1864, the first year of Emperor Gojong's reign, with the sarangchae and lower quarters presumed to have been added later. The anchae has an ordinary L-shaped structure. Centred on the daecheong (wooden-floored hall), a storeroom and an adjoining room are set to the right, and the main bedroom and kitchen to the left. A distinctive feature is that single-leaf doors were fitted on all four sides of the main bedroom to allow entry and exit. With no separate family shrine, the ancestral tablets are enshrined against the rear wall of one bay of the daecheong, which serves as the shrine space, and unusually a storeroom is placed beside the daecheong. The storeroom door faces the daecheong, with a window set at the front. The sarangchae, which incorporates the gateway, is arranged from the left with a storeroom, the main gate, the sarang room and a cattle shed. In front of the sarang room, a wooden floor has been built on a high stone step. The lower quarters stand to the right of the anchae, centred on a two-bay room flanked by a kitchen on one side and a two-bay storeroom on the other. Of these buildings, the anchae is of particular interest for its distinctive layout and its old and unusual structural methods, and it is regarded as a valuable resource for the study of traditional Korean housing. This heritage site is generally open to visitors, but access may be restricted at times owing to the personal circumstances of the owner or others.

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Where it is

Region

Jecheon, Chungbuk

Designation

National Folklore Heritage · 국가민속문화유산