Head House of the Pansagong Branch of the Pyeongsan Sin Clan

This house is said to have been built around 1705 by Sin Han-tae (1663-1719), twelfth-generation descendant of Pansagong. Records from a recent repair show that the detached wing was built around 1784. No records survive of when the village school and the portrait hall, auxiliary buildings outside the wall to the left, were built. Passing through the tall central gate of the gate house, one finds the detached wing set at an angle to the right of the broad outer yard, with the main house behind it — a quadrangular, courtyard-enclosed building made up of the women's quarters and the men's quarters. On high ground to the north-east of the main house stands a separate compound containing the family shrine, and privies are placed to the right of the gate house and at the rear left corner of the main house. The soy-jar terrace, set apart on the left of the outer yard, catches the eye for standing away from the kitchen, unlike the usual practice of keeping it close by. Passing through an opening in the wall roughly at the centre of the left-hand fence, one finds the portrait hall and the village school arranged side by side, left and right, on the east-west axis they form with the shrine. On lower ground in front of the village school stands a thatched outbuilding where live-out servants once lived. Detached wings and village schools are auxiliary buildings built within or close to the compound for lecturing and assembly, a feature that has appeared widely since the sixteenth century. This house is fully equipped with the architectural formality required of a head house, and in particular the detached wing, portrait hall and village school — an expansion of the men's quarters — are an uncommon feature. They are a valuable heritage that lets us examine the lives of Confucian scholars and the character of the residential culture of gentry households.

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Where it is

Region

Cheongsong, Gyeongbuk

Designation

National Folklore Heritage · 국가민속문화유산