Former Takada Agricultural Warehouse North Small Storehouse

The Small Store of the Takada Warehouses

The Former Takada Agricultural Warehouse North Small Storehouse (旧高田農業倉庫北小蔵) is a small clay-walled storehouse of the early Showa period in Shinmachi, Bungotakada City, Oita Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on April 28, 2010 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a single-storey clay-walled storehouse with a tile roof and a building area of 89 square metres; registration number 44-0177.

A Small Store with Two Different Gables

The Former Takada Agricultural Warehouse North Small Storehouse is a single-storey clay-walled store standing to the north-east of the North Storehouse (Agency for Cultural Affairs). It measures 12 metres by 7.7 metres, about a seventh of the North Storehouse in building area.

Its roof ends differently at each side: half-hipped (Half-hipped roof) at the east and fully gabled (Kirizuma-zukuri) at the west. The walls are finished in white plaster (Shikkui), and along their base are round vents that open and close with metal plates (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency notes that it follows the same specification as the North and East Storehouses but is smaller and roofed differently, adding variety to the warehouse group, and registered it as a structure contributing to the historic landscape of the country. The Former Takada Agricultural Warehouse North Small Storehouse became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property on April 28, 2010, together with the North and East Storehouses.

What to Look For

At the Former Takada Agricultural Warehouse North Small Storehouse, compare the two ends: the east roof is clipped at its tip, while the west end rises as a full triangular gable, two ways of finishing a roof on one small building.

Look down, too, at the round vents along the foot of the white walls. Their metal covers open and shut, a detail the small store shares with its two large neighbours (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

No official information was found on the current use of the Former Takada Agricultural Warehouse North Small Storehouse or on access to its interior. It stands north-east of the North Storehouse, so the difference in scale is easy to see when viewing the two together.