函館旧英国領事館(大正2年)の建築について

Abstract

This paper describes the former British Consulate in Hakodate based on our survey of the building and the several drawings obtained by courtesy of the Public Record Office, London. The consulate, now designated as one of the cultural properties of the city, was re-built in 1913 by the time the three predecessors had been burnt down by frequent fires. The first consulate was built in 1863 and destroyed in 1865, as the authors have alreday dealt with in another papers. The second, built by 1876, was a single-storied timber framed structure, with clinker sheeted on the outside of the wall, surrounding a courtyard. The third, built in about 1885, was also a single-storied brick bungalow residence erected on the stone foundations. And then the fourth, existing up to date, was completed in 1913 by the design of the H. B. M. Office of Works in Shanghai. The constructor was the Ohmura Gomei-kaisha. The existing building, of brick covered with white plaster, looks rather simple and solid, while at the north side five-arched veranda allows an open view towards the port. It has a U-shaped plan of one main building to the north and two rear appendix wings. The main building comprises a (vice-) consul's residence and offices, the east wing consists of the dormitory for a shipping clerk and a writer, and the west wing is for servants.