Old House in Gwanjeong-ri, Cheongju

This folk house is a late Joseon-period building, relocated and restored in its original form from the house in Gwanjeong-ri, Nangseong-myeon, where Sin Bang-ho once lived; it is a typical thatched-roof house of the central region. The house consists of a straight-line (il-ja) anchae (main quarters) and a gwangchae (storage building) that also contains the main gate. There is no ridge-beam inscription, so the exact date of construction cannot be determined, but it is presumed to date from the late Joseon period. The building standing today was relocated from Gwanjeong-ri in 1994, as the Munui Cultural Heritage Complex was being developed from 1992; according to the testimony of Sin Byeong-ho, the owner at the time, the house had been lived in by his family for five generations, suggesting it dates back at least 200-odd years. As the residence of a wealthy farming family of the time, it was built with sturdier structural members than the usual framing of a thatched house, and its detailed joinery is also very refined; in plan it is a five-bay house, the typical body form of folk architecture in North Chungcheong, and a cabinet for housing ancestral tablets was built into the daecheong (wooden-floored hall). Compared with other thatched houses of its period, it displays markedly distinctive architectural features. However, whereas a separate gatehouse originally stood between the anchae and the surrounding wall, it was not rebuilt as a separate structure when the house was relocated, and was instead combined with the gwangchae into a single L-shaped building. This change is presumed to have resulted from adapting the construction to the topographical conditions of the Cultural Heritage Complex. As the house of a wealthy farming family of the time, it used sturdier members than the usual thatched-house framing, with very refined detailed joinery, and it remains a typical example of folk architecture in North Chungcheong.

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Where it is

Region

Cheongju, Chungbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료