Kim Du-han House

This house was built to look after the grave of Kim Tan-haeng (1714–1774), who served as Magistrate of Wonju and Magistrate of Namwon. It is said to have first been built about 240 years ago, though there is no firm evidence for this, and to have undergone major repairs in 1936. The L-shaped main house (anchae) is joined to the men's quarters (sarangchae) to form a U shape, and a gate and a shed are attached to the end of the sarangchae, giving the whole compound a square layout. In the main house, the master bedroom and the upper room adjoin the kitchen, with a wooden-floored hall and a side room next to them; the roof, seen from the side, is a lavish paljak, hip-and-gable, roof shaped like the character 八. The sarangchae was built on a three-tiered foundation of long dressed stones, three bays wide at the front, with a wooden-floored room in the left bay and rooms in the right two bays. Behind the wooden-floored room is a single-bay ondol, heated-floor, room, which adjoins the kitchen of the main house at the rear. Beside the sarangchae is the main gate, connected to which a shed and storerooms run in an L shape. The section from the gate to the shed is noticeably lower than the sarangchae, so that the roofline also steps down. Traditional houses are generally arranged with separate spaces for men and women, but this house shows an unusual arrangement in which the main space of the sarangchae adjoins the front of the main house's kitchen.

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Where it is

Region

Wonju, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산