Okgye Head House

An inscription on a ridge-end roof tile (mangwa), reading "the sixth year of Gwangseo (1880), fourth month of the gyeongjin year," shows that the building was constructed before 1880. It is preserved today as the head house (jongtaek) of Kim Myeong-heum, known by his pen name Okgye, and materials such as the Okgyemunjip (his collected writings), the inscribed mangwa tile, and modern-era repair records are all items that should be preserved for later generations. It is a typical square (ㅁ-shaped) building, with a stable and a storeroom to the left of the central gate bay and the sarangchae (men's quarters) to the right. At the centre of the anchae (women's quarters) is the main room, comprising a two-bay daecheong (wooden-floored hall) and a half-bay eaves bay; the main bedroom and kitchen are arranged to its left, and a storeroom to its right forms a wing annex. The placement of the lattice window in the anchae's main bedroom, and the way the sarangchae's room was enlarged by extending the antechamber between the sarang room and the sarang floor, together with the sarang room itself, outward to the projecting eaves platform so as to bring it closer to the sarang courtyard, offer insight into the changing pattern of residential floor plans in the northern Gyeongsangbuk-do region, giving the house value worth preserving as a cultural heritage material.

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Where it is

Region

Bonghwa, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료