Jang Jae-yeong House

This old house was built in 1856, the seventh year of King Cheoljong of Joseon, and comprises an inner quarters (anchae), a men's quarters (sarangchae), a servants' quarters (haengnangchae) and a gatehouse (munganchae). The anchae measures four bays across the front and three bays to the side, and has a hip-and-gable roof (paljakjibung), so named because its gable end resembles the shape of the character for "eight" (八). The sarangchae, standing in front of the anchae, measures four bays across the front and two bays to the side; it has a gable roof (matbaejibung) whose end resembles the shape of the character for "person" (人), and its columns are round. Viewed from the front, the roof over the first bay on the left is considerably lower than the other three bays and rests on square columns, because it was added at a later date. The haengnangchae is a hip-and-gable building of three bays by two bays, with a plank floor raised 40 cm above the ground to let air circulate beneath it. The gatehouse, three bays across the front and one bay deep, has a raised central gate (sotdaemun) flanked by a privy and storeroom on the left and a room on the right. In front of the gate stands a granite mounting stone, used for mounting and dismounting horses, which was moved here from its original position beside the road in front of the house. To the right of the gatehouse there was once an inner gate in the same raised-gate style, but only its foundation now remains. It is a late Joseon-period house of the yangban (scholar-official) class that has retained its original form comparatively well.

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Where it is

Region

Jangsu, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산