Gyeongju Kim Clan Nulgok Head House

This is the head house (jongtaek) of the Acheongong branch of the Gyeongju Kim clan, said to have been built around 1600 by Kim Eon-su (1574–1638). It consists of a square (mija-shaped) main hall and a separate, detached men's quarters (sarangchae), with no separate main gate. The main hall, oriented slightly off south-east, measures four kan across the front and four kan to the side (a kan being the traditional bay between pillars). Centred on a two-kan daecheong (open wooden-floored hall), the main room lies to its right, with a large two-kan kitchen facing the inner courtyard. To the left of the daecheong is the upper room, and beyond a turn in the building is a small kitchen with a loft above it, together with a storeroom and an inner sarang room. To the left of the inner sarang room a back room projects outward, while to the right a middle gate, a cattle shed and a lower room follow in sequence, one kan each, so that the main hall measures five kan across the front in all. In front of the main hall, to the left, stands the sarangchae, two kan across the front and two kan to the side; in front of its two-kan sarang room a two-kan wooden floor was built, finished with earthen walls and panelled doors. The roof is a hip-and-gable (paljak) roof, its sides forming the shape of the Chinese character for "eight" (八). As an old house of the mid-Joseon period that has relatively well preserved its appearance at the time of construction, it is valuable material for the study of architecture in the northern part of the East Sea coastal region.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongdeok, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산