Jukeon Hall Historic House, Jangheung

Jukeon Hall Historic House stands at the centre of the village, next to the road that passes through it. The raised gate (soseul-daemun) in front of the house retains a ridge-raising inscription (sangnyangmun) recording that the columns were erected at the imja-musin hour on the seventh day of the third month of the gichuk year — the fifth sexagenary cycle after the start of the Chongzhen era — and that the ridge beam was raised at the gapja-gisa hour on the nineteenth day, which corresponds to 1949. The main hall (anchae) and the men's quarters (sarangchae), however, are thought to date from considerably earlier, probably the early twentieth century. Two old, large trees stand in front of the house, and beyond them, up a short flight of steps, the raised gate faces west, with the sarangchae set to its left. The entrance to the main hall requires climbing a good many further steps from the gate, and instead of a door, a gap was simply left between the walls to allow passage. Beyond this lies the inner courtyard (anmadang), with the main hall aligned on the same axis as the entrance behind it. To the north of the courtyard a storehouse (gwangchae) runs lengthwise, and to the rear of the main hall, on a separate level, stands the family shrine. Between the rear of the sarangchae and the inner courtyard a low wall with steps allows direct passage from the sarangchae into the courtyard. To the north of the sarangchae is a small square pond with a tiny island at its centre, planted with pine and willow. Built on sloping ground, the walls and the roof lines of the sarangchae and main hall rise in tiers, giving an orderly, graduated impression. The main hall is a straight (il-shaped), six-bay house with front and rear verandas, built in the deep double-row (gyeopjip) style. In its bay arrangement, the two northern front bays form the kitchen and the two rear bays are rooms to left and right; next comes the main room, then a two-bay wooden-floored hall (daecheong) at the centre, and a small room at the far end, with a veranda on the right. Structurally it has two inner columns and a five-purlin frame, with jangheo beams supporting flat-profile purlins; the king-post is a plank-type post with rounded shoulders. The foundation stones are square-cut dressed granite topped with square columns, and the platform is built of dressed stone laid in even courses three courses high, finished with long dressed stones. The roof is of hip-and-gable form. The sarangchae is a four-bay house with front and rear verandas. From the north, the front bay is a room and the rear bay a storage space; in the next two bays a large room sits at the front with rooms to left and right behind it; the last bay is a wooden-floored hall, and each veranda bay has a small storage room. The front of the sarangchae has a sunshading feature, and to the north is a raised wooden veranda (numaru). It too is built with two inner columns and a five-purlin frame, with changbang beams running around the columns, boaji brackets fitted, and jutu capitals placed above; the corners of the purlins are chamfered and supported by jangheo beams. Only the columns in visible positions are round, the rest square, and all stand on low, irregularly shaped foundation stones.

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Region

Jangheung, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산