Building at 112, Guanhe Road

What the listing says

The city's description, as summarised on English Wikipedia: Constructed in the late Qing Dynasty, this traditional courtyard-style wooden building is representative of "shop in front, house at back" riverside buildings in Xixing region.

Since 2013 part of a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (the Grand Canal).

Xixing, in today's Binjiang District, sits at the western end of the East Zhejiang Canal, where goods and travellers crossed between the Qiantang River and the canal. From the Wanli reign of the Ming dynasty, transfer firms called guotanghang grew up here to handle that crossing; at their height people spoke of "seventy-two and a half" of them. When the Qiantang's channel moved north and the canal fell out of use, the firms closed. The canal head became a Hangzhou protected site in 2002, part of the Grand Canal national protected site in 2013 and part of the Grand Canal World Heritage property in 2014.

Key facts

Where it fits

Traditional houses of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912) on Hangzhou's list are mostly timber-framed courtyard houses of one or two storeys, closed to the street by walls and gateways. They stand in the lanes of the old city, along the canal and the Qiantang River at Xixing and Changhe, and in the towns and villages of Xiaoshan and Yuhang. All the qing dynasty houses on the list.

It belongs to the third batch, announced on 6 March 2007: 70 buildings, including stone-gate lanes east of West Lake, Republican-era shops, and the canal-side houses and transfer firms of Xixing and Changhe.

What the listing protects

A listed building may not be altered, moved or demolished without approval. Under the regulations in force since 1 October 2013, each listed building has a protection plan and a sign put up by the city, and falls into one of three protection categories, from keeping its main exterior features to keeping its exterior, plan, structure and details.

Its owner, or for a state-owned building its user, is responsible for upkeep and repairs, and a repair plan must be approved first. The listing does not open a building to the public: most listed buildings are still homes, offices, schools or shops.

On the same street

• Buildings at 102,103, and 104, Guanhe Road: LSJZ3-62, late qing dynasty
• Buildings at 105, 106 and 107, Guanhe Road: LSJZ4-34, late qing dynasty
• Yu Renyuan's Guotanghang: LSJZ4-35, late qing dynasty
• Ye Hanxiang's Commercial Transfer Station: LSJZ4-37, late qing dynasty

Sources and licence

• Description: adapted from the English Wikipedia article List of third batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Chinese name, period, address and remarks: Chinese Wikipedia, 杭州市历史建筑 and the building's own article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Listing: Hangzhou municipal government notice 杭政函〔2007〕51号 of 6 March 2007.
• Photo: Yumeto, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons. Photos credited to "hangzhoumemory" or "Laohangzhou" were uploaded by the former heritage portal; Hangzhou Memory is not connected with it.
• The text of this page is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.