Byeon Clan Old House 2 in Sabyeong-ri, Geochang

The Byeon Jong-hwan Old House comprises four buildings — the anchae (women's quarters), sarangchae (men's quarters), daemunchae (gate quarters) and gotganchae (storehouse) — together with a further gate and a shed. The anchae and sarangchae are arranged as parallel straight (ㅡ-shaped) rows, a layout typical of wealthy farmhouses of the southern region. The anchae has a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof, four bays across the front and one bay deep, with projecting front and rear bays (toe), and is built in the five-purlin napdori style, a simple, bracket-less timber frame using jangyeo horizontal support beams, its ridge purlin carried on plain dongjaju-daegong, short king-post struts. In plan, from left to right, there is one bay each of kitchen, room, daecheong (wooden-floored hall) and room; a narrow veranda (jjokmaru) enclosed by a plain railing runs in front of the kitchen room. Behind the rooms and the daecheong a half-bay space has been added, showing a tendency toward a deeper, double-row plan, and inside the daecheong a raised-floor storeroom closed off by a four-panel ttisalmun lattice door has been built. The sarangchae is a napdori-style house with a hipped roof, four bays across the front and one bay deep with a front projecting bay; it shows a practical character, with the kitchen floor lowered and a loft installed above it, and the depth of its long wooden flooring (jangmaru) varied room by room to suit different uses. The daemunchae has a four-bay hipped roof and houses the main gate, a grain-storage room (duji), a storeroom and a bathroom, with a toilet at each end. The bathroom and toilet are said to have been shared with the senior house (keunjip) opposite, and the millstone of the senior house is said to have been used by this junior house (jageunjip) as well — a noteworthy detail reflecting the relationship between elder and younger sons in the spatial planning of a wealthy farmhouse.

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Geochang, Gyeongnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료