Ichanghun Old House, Goesan

This house is said to have been built in 1908 by Lee Dal-seung, grandfather of its current owner Ichanghun (aged 78), though the exact year of construction is difficult to confirm with certainty. It is thought that an earlier house stood on the site and that it was substantially rebuilt in 1924. The house consists of a main house (anchae), a men's quarters (sarangchae), an ancestral shrine (sadang), a storage building (gwangchae), a cattle shed and a main gate, and retains the form of a traditional old house. On a rectangular site running north–south, the buildings as a whole form an open square (ㅁ-shaped) layout with one side missing. Beyond the gate building and main gate, the servants' quarters and the sarangchae are linked by a door and bend at an angle, with a straight storage building alongside. The main house is a straight, single-eaved, wood-framed tile house with a jeontoe (a projecting front porch floor), measuring six bays across the front and two and a half bays on the side; a half-bay side porch extension is set beside the geonneonbang (the room across the hall), and a tall nu-maru (raised wooden floor) is installed at the front. A toenmaru (narrow wooden veranda) runs from the front of the daecheong (central wooden-floored hall) and from in front of the anbang (main room) to the kitchen, connecting through to the side porch by the nu-maru, and a long jjokmaru (narrow attached veranda) is fitted along the rear. On a granite platform finished in a single course, tall trapezoidal square plinth stones support square wooden posts. The frame uses napdori (plain, rectangular-sectioned purlins) in a five-purlin frame with one raised interior post, under a single-eaved paljak roof. The sarangchae consists of a south-facing section of five bays across the front and one and a half bays on the side, and an east-facing section of four and a half bays across the front and one and a half bays on the side, joined at a bent angle around a central gate to form an L-shape, the whole a wood-framed tile building with a jeontoe. The wing running north–south has a jeontoe added to the east side of the sarangbang (men's room). Across the central three bays of the east–west wing a jeontoe is installed, with narrow attached verandas fitted on either side; the building stands on tall trapezoidal square plinth stones on a single-course platform, with square wooden posts. At the head of each post, the purlin and beam, supported by bracket pieces, are left projecting beyond the post. The frame is again a napdori, one-raised-post, five-purlin structure, under a single-eaved paljak roof. The ancestral shrine measures three bays across the front and one and a half bays on the side with a jeontoe, and each of its three bays is fitted with four-leaf folding lattice doors. It is a napdori, half-five-purlin frame, with a single-eaved gable roof fitted with wind boards; inside, two of the three bays contain shrine niches housing spirit tablets and portraits. The storage building runs north–south and consists of a storeroom of seven bays across the front and one bay on the side together with a shed, with a kitchen and a servants' room at the south end; it is a napdori, three-purlin frame with a hipped roof. The cattle shed measures three bays across the front and one bay on the side, a three-purlin frame with a gable roof. The house is set on an auspicious site within the village, where the natural scenery, together with Manghwajeong Pavilion and the lotus pond, forms a harmonious setting amid beautiful mountains and waters. Built in 1908, it is a traditional old house that clearly shows the architectural style of yangban (aristocratic) houses of the central region, and, as a hanok in which traditional house forms are mixed with forms from the Enlightenment period, its main house, storage building, sarangchae and servants' quarters, and shrine all retain their appearance from that time well, making it a valuable resource for scholarly study.

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Where it is

Region

Goesan, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산