Gimbyeongho Old House

Built in 1893, the thirtieth year of Emperor Gojong, the house came to be called Gimbyeongho Old House after the name of the person living there at the time of its designation in 1984. The house site is said to have once been the location of a pond; the ground was prepared over three years, and a master carpenter who had overseen construction work at nearby Yongmunsa Temple was brought in to build the house. It was one of the larger houses among those of the Gyeonggi region, but it is said that during the Japanese colonial period a fire destroyed every part of it except the main house. The present house stands on a rectangular plot, arranged around an inner courtyard in a loosely enclosed square layout, with a ㄱ-shaped main house facing a ㄴ-shaped servants' quarters. The house keeps the typical form of a ㄱ-shaped dwelling found across the Gyeonggi region. A distinctive feature, however, is that an ondol room and a wooden floor were attached to the left of the cross room in the main house, giving it the function of a shrine for enshrining ancestral spirit tablets and performing memorial rites. Where a separate shrine building is not built, it is usual instead to fit a small spirit-tablet cabinet into the rear wall of the main house's floored hall; this house is unusual in having attached to the main house a dedicated shrine room together with its own floored hall. Because the Gimbyeongho Old House retains its roof-raising inscription, its construction date can be clearly established. The pillars and beams making up the main house are sound, and the joinery of its doors and windows is fine and meticulous, making it a solidly built house, rare even within Gyeonggi-do.

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Where it is

Region

Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산