Historic House of Yureo-ri, Boseong

Built between the 1890s and 1900s, this house, made up of a main quarters, a men's quarters and a lower quarters, strongly displays the character of houses of the inland southern provinces. The main quarters stands in a place of great natural beauty, with the men's quarters set opposite it. A few steps up to the east of the inner courtyard lead to a lower courtyard and a west-facing lower quarters, said to have originally been a shrine. To the west of the inner courtyard is a shed built in recent times. The main quarters is a single-row building in the style of the southern provinces. From the east are a small room, a two-bay hall, the principal room and the kitchen. A veranda floor runs from the principal room to the small room, and in front of the small room the floor is raised slightly to make room for a firebox. There is a door between the hall and the veranda floor, a common feature of southern-provinces houses. The men's quarters has posts set into the middle of both side walls so that the bays can be partitioned. From the east are a storehouse, beside it a woodshed, then a kitchen, a lower reception room, an upper reception room, and at the very end a room for raising silkworms — though this last is a later alteration, so its original form is not known. The lower quarters is a kind of secondary men's quarters, corresponding to a small reception building. It has a lower room and a hall to the south and a storehouse to the north, with veranda floors at the front and on the right. The main quarters here was built around 1900 and shows a distinctive composition typical of the inland southern provinces; many folk artefacts have been preserved intact within it, offering a glimpse of everyday life of the time. In particular, to the west of the main quarters stands a storehouse, used for storing rice after the harvest, in a form different from that of the central region. Persimmon trees grow thickly around the house, connecting to a bamboo grove that adds greatly to its atmosphere, though there is no special garden. This heritage site is generally open to visitors, but access may be restricted at the owner's discretion.

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Where it is

Region

Boseong, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

National Folklore Heritage · 국가민속문화유산