Hamyang Umyeongni Jeong Clan Old House

This house was built when the fifth son of Huiun, a seventh-generation descendant of Jeong Yeo-chang of the Hadong Jeong clan, set up a separate branch household. On a large, roughly rectangular site running long north to south stand an I-shaped gate quarters and an I-shaped men's quarters (sarangchae), with an I-shaped women's quarters (anchae) facing north-east. The gate quarters measure four kan across the front and one kan in depth (a kan being the traditional bay spacing between a building's columns). Passing through the gate, one reaches the sarangchae, which measures four kan across the front and two and a half kan in depth; its roof, trapezoidal when viewed from the front, is a hipped roof (ujingak). The anchae measures five and a half kan across the front and two kan in depth, with a hipped-and-gabled roof (paljak) that forms the shape of the character meaning "eight" when seen from the side. The kitchen (jeongji) lies on the west side, and on the east is the main bedroom, two kan across the front and one kan deep. The inner sarangchae measures two kan by one kan, and to the north-east of the anchae, within a separately built wall, stands a one-by-two-kan shrine hall. The gate quarters rise high, as if bearing witness to long years of weathering, and although the sarangchae is somewhat modest in scale, the outer and inner courtyards are well divided. With even a shrine hall included, this is a traditional house that fully displays the character of a clan's head household.

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Where it is

Region

Hamyang, Gyeongnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료