Yeongju Geumgwangnijangseogu House

Yeongju Geumgwangni Jangseogu House was purchased by the great-great-grandfather of its current owner, Jang Seok-u, and was built in the early 1800s as a kkachigumeong-jip, a "magpie-hole house", a traditional house type with a smoke vent in the roof ridge. It comprises a kkachigumeong-jip main hall (anchae), a detached men's quarters (sarangchae) and a mill building (bangatganchae); it appears that originally only the main hall existed, with the men's quarters and mill building added later. Entering through the gate set between the shed facing the front road and the trees, one finds a relatively spacious yard with the single-row, "il"-shaped men's quarters facing south-east. Passing through the central gate set within the men's quarters, the mill building stands to the right and the kkachigumeong-jip main hall directly ahead, with an inner courtyard between them. A wall between the rear of the men's quarters and the main hall gives the whole complex an open, square ("mi"-shaped) layout. The men's quarters is a single-row building of five bays across the front and one bay deep. Centred on the central-gate bay, it has a one-bay stable to the right, and to the left a two-bay men's room and a one-bay wooden-floored hall connected to one another, with a narrow veranda running along the front of both the heated room and the hall. The main hall is a kkachigumeong-jip of three bays across the front and two bays deep: at the front a bongdang, an earthen-floored entry area, is flanked by a kitchen and a men's room, while at the rear a wooden-floored hall is flanked by the main bedroom and a storeroom. Where the stable would normally stand, an upper room has been inserted, the stable itself having been moved to the later-built men's quarters. The mill building consists, from left to right, of a one-bay millstone room and a half-bay grain store and storeroom connected to one another, with a foot-powered pestle mill installed at the rear. Kkachigumeong-jip houses are generally free-standing single structures, so an example like the Jang Seok-u House, where a men's quarters and mill building were added later to form an open, square layout, is rare. The plan of the main hall also shows how, once the men's quarters was added, the stable moved there and an upper room took its place — a change of layout that makes the house valuable evidence for the study of Korean housing history.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산