Andong Gwon Ssi Yu Hoe-dang Head Family and Surroundings

This is the site first chosen by Gwon I-jin (1668–1734), who used the pen name Yu Hoe-dang and served as Minister of Taxation under King Yeongjo. To the southwest of Mount Bomunsan, at the lowest point of the area, lies a clan village of the Andong Gwon lineage, at the centre of which stands the Yu Hoe-dang head house. The present head house was built by Gwon Hyeong-jing (1694–1755), the son of Gwon I-jin, and has since undergone several restorations to reach its present form. The current buildings replace an earlier house lost to fire, rebuilt on this site by descendants in 1877. Sited almost due south on the skirts of Mount Bomunsan, the old house's grounds contain an anchae (women's inner quarters), a sarangchae (men's quarters), a sadang (ancestral shrine), a pond called Baehoedam, and a pavilion called Gwangyeongjeong. A servants' quarters originally stood here too, but it fell into disrepair and disappeared after Liberation in 1945. Overall the individual buildings are kept relatively small while the spaces between them are laid out generously. The sarangchae measures four bays across the front and two bays deep: the leftmost bay is a daecheong, an open wooden-floored hall, and the two central bays are ondol-heated rooms warmed by underfloor flues. In the rightmost bay a room was placed at the front, with a loft above the rear and a low-ceilinged storage space below, though the layout here has been somewhat altered since a caretaker has lived in it. Although the pillars are relatively thick for the building's scale, allowing long eaves, the building still gives a sense of visual and structural stability. The anchae had collapsed and was restored in 2000. It is built on an L-shaped plan centred on a four-bay-wide daecheong, with the main bedroom and a side room to either side and a kitchen set in front of the main bedroom. Structurally, natural stone plinths sit on the stylobate with square pillars rising from them to support the upper structure, and the roof is a single-eaved hipped roof. The shrine, standing at the rear of the sarangchae and at the highest point of the old house's grounds, is three bays across the front with a bay added the full width of the front, and its interior is entirely floored with well-frame flooring. Structurally it stands on a two-tiered stylobate of piled natural stone, with large natural-stone plinths and round pillars, topped by simple ikgong-style bracketing that supports the upper structure. The roof is a single-eaved gable roof.

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Jung-gu, Daejeon

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Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산