Sangyujae Hall Historic House, Jeongseon

This wooden building was constructed after a founding ancestor (jungsijo) of the Jeju Go clan retired from official life at the turn from Goryeo to Joseon, and it is the oldest surviving house in the town of Jeongseon. Its floor plan is in the shape of the character 井 (meaning 'well'), and the house is divided into a main hall (anchae) and a men's detached quarters (sarangchae). The overall structure follows the building style commonly found in the houses of the yangban aristocracy, and the floor of the sarangchae is built in the style of a pavilion (jeongja). Part of the house is said to have undergone repair around 1921, and to the right of the main gate two mulberry trees, believed to be around 600 years old, are designated and managed as a Provincial Monument. In the modern period, the sarangchae was repaired after flood damage in 1934 (the eulhae year), and from 1999 until August 2000 the anchae and sarangchae were entirely dismantled and repaired, and the earthen-and-stone wall was restored. Today only the anchae, sarangchae and a storehouse remain, but it is said that originally, together with the servants' quarters (haengnangchae) and other outbuildings, this was a large house of over 200 pyeong (roughly 660 square metres). The U-shaped anchae and the single-wing sarangchae together form an overall square layout. The anchae is a hip-and-gable-roofed house shaped like the character 八 (eight); at its centre are a wooden-floored hall (daecheong), an upper room, a main room and a kitchen, and the room across from the daecheong is linked in a U shape to the auxiliary kitchen room (jeongjibang). The sarangchae is a simple gable-roofed house shaped like the character 人 (person), made up of a stable, an entrance passage, a kitchen, rooms, the sarangbang and a daecheong. In front of the sarangchae there was originally a gatehouse wing, of which only traces now remain. A tiled wall was built so that the anchae cannot be seen from the sarangchae. The Go Hak-gyu Historic House is unusual in that it lacks the spacious rear garden typical of Korean houses, though there is a plot to the west of the house that appears to have been the site of a garden.

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Where it is

Region

Jeongseon, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산