Changpyeongchunganggojeongju Historic House

This house is a traditional yangban (scholar-official class) residence comprising an anchae (main house), two sarangchae (men's quarters), a gokganchae (storehouse), a sadang (ancestral shrine), and inner and outer munganchae (gate houses), forming a well-ordered complex befitting its status. Passing through a tall, raised three-bay gate on the south-west side, one finds the inner and outer sarangchae standing side by side, with the anchae and gokganchae set at right angles behind them; the sadang stands apart in its own precinct to the east. The anchae faces south and has a C-shaped (digeut-shaped) plan, rare in the Jeolla region, built as a sturdy hanok with thick structural members and wide bays. It stands on a low, two-course stone platform, with naturally shaped foundation stones whose tops have been smoothed, supporting square-sectioned wooden pillars; the frame is of the two-king-post, five-purlin type. Its ridge-beam inscription, recording that the columns were raised at a specific hour on the sixteenth day of the second month of the gyechuk year, the fifth after the beginning of the Chongzhen era, confirms that the building was erected in 1913. The outer sarangchae, bearing the name Yukhyodang, is a four-bay building with a narrow veranda at front and back but none at the sides, only a wooden porch floor across the front; it stands on a two-course platform with trapezoidal dressed foundation stones and square pillars, in a two-king-post, five-purlin frame. The inner sarangchae is a four-bay building with veranda extensions on all four sides and a hipped-and-gabled roof. The Chungang Go Jeong-ju Historic House has a C-shaped plan rare in the South Jeolla region and represents the residence of a wealthy yangban family. It is notably well equipped with all the elements a yangban house should have — gate house, sarangchae, inner gate house, anchae and storehouse — with thick structural members, wide bays and excellent construction throughout. It was the house of Chungang Go Jeong-ju (1863–1933) and, as the origin of Yeonghaksuk and Changheunguisuk, the forerunners of modern education in the Changpyeong area, and as a wellspring of the national movement in the final years of the Korean Empire, it also carries significance for modern and contemporary history.

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Where it is

Region

Damyang, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산