Haenam Min Jeong-gi House

This house was built in 1807, the seventh year of King Sunjo, by Min Hyeong-hyeon, sixth-generation ancestor of the present owner Min Jeong-gi, and comprises a main hall (anchae), a detached men's quarters (sarangchae), a shrine and a gatehouse. According to the ridge-beam inscription of the main hall, which reads "Sungjeong gi-won hu sa eulsa jungsu" (a date recorded using the old Chongzhen reign-era system), the building was rebuilt in 1845, the 11th year of King Heonjong. The main hall is a six-bay, single-row structure with a narrow wooden-floored porch at both front and back, and a grain-storage space set into one side of its main wooden-floored hall. The balustrade of its raised pavilion floor is unusually decorated with a variety of patterns, including an "a"-shaped lattice, circular motifs and birdcage shapes. The sarangchae measures five bays across the front and one bay deep, with a central wooden-floored hall flanked by two heated rooms. Unusually for a sarangchae, it has a gabled roof, and a horizontal plaque reading "Cheongsajeong" hangs on the building. The shrine is a plain, three-bay structure in the mindori style, and the gatehouse, of four bays, combines an entrance passage with living quarters. This house is of great academic value for the excellence of its woodworking techniques and the composition of its residential spaces, and is an important piece of national heritage for understanding the residential culture of the late Joseon period in the Haenam region.

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Where it is

Region

Haenam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료