Empress Sunjeong's Family Home순정효황후윤씨친가

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Empress Sunjeong's Family Home is a house that fully showcases the character of upper-class residences of the Joseon Dynasty. It is a restoration modeled on the Yun Family House of Ogin-dong, located within Namsangol Hanok Village. The house originally stood at 47-133 Ogin-dong, Jongno-gu, and was moved in 1996 when Namsangol Park was created. Said to have been the residence of Queen Yun at the end of the Joseon Dynasty, the house has its main gate facing east. The sarangchae (men's quarters) was built in a pavilion style at the southeast corner of the site, in a spot overlooking the entire city. The daecheong (main wooden-floored hall) of the anchae (main quarters) is a six-bay hall, two bays deep and three bays wide, facing east. All the column heads use single-wing brackets, and the unusual structure in which cloud-shaped brackets support the purlins is notable. The sarangchae has a hip-and-gable roof with corner rafters on all four corners, and its gable ends are finished with brick. The doors and windows, lattice doors and swastika-pattern windows in a double-door style, have deteriorated. The decorative technique of slightly staggering the vertical bars of the sarangchae's fixed windows is worth seeing. On the gable wall of the kitchen, a lattice vent window was made above the roof of the low servants' quarters for natural ventilation, with excellent carving. The carved ornaments at the ends of the gables use typical soesari moldings, and the column edges and middle rails are finely finished with chamfering techniques such as oesamo, silori, and mossangsa.