Geumsan Mountain Hall

Geumsandang stands to the left of Yeongcheon Manchwidang, a National Folklore Cultural Heritage. It is said to have been built by Jo Byeong-mun, a neungchambong (a minor official in charge of a royal tomb), as a residence for his second son. The building's present layout has an L-shaped sarangchae, the men's quarters, at the front facing south, with a straight, single-row anchae, the inner quarters, behind it. However, when first built, a three-bay house stood to the left in front of the anchae, so that the whole formed an open, roughly square layout; a side gate on the right of the anchae connected it directly to Manchwidang, but this gate was removed when Manchwidang was later repaired. It is also said that a gate house once stood at what is now the entrance, and that a storehouse and a mill building stood to the left of the sarangchae, with a stable and a thatched outbuilding in front of the storehouse, giving the complex the full formality of a yangban (gentry) house. Today, however, only the anchae and sarangchae remain. The sarangchae has an L-shaped plan centred on a two-bay sarang-daecheong (men's quarters hall) at the corner, with two-bay ondol (heated-floor) rooms to its left and toward the anchae; a central gate to the left of the left-hand ondol room allows passage into the anchae. The anchae has a straight, six-bay plan arranged, from the left, as a kitchen, a two-bay main room, a two-bay wooden-floored hall, and a one-bay ondol room, with a narrow eave-side space set in front of the ondol room and behind the hall. According to a ridge-raising inscription written on the daeryang jangheo, a main beam-supporting timber, Geumsandang was built in the 4th year of the Korean Empire, that is, 1900. Although it no longer retains its appearance exactly as built, the surviving sarangchae and anchae preserve the woodworking techniques of the period well, and the timber and craftsmanship are of proper formal standard. The building also shows how its layout and circulation were shaped by its relationship with neighbouring Manchwidang, giving it value as a research resource.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongcheon, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산