The traditional house in the village of Playen, Kapanewon Playen, Gunung Kidul Regency was first built by Sastro Pratomo, from Playen Village (formerly Ngawu Village), at the Jatisari Padhukuhan (formerly Cantung Padhukuhan). There is no definite information on when the traditional house was built, but it is estimated that before independence the traditional house was already standing. Besides serving as Carik Desa, Sastro Pratomo is also known for his closeness to Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX, and several elders from the Playen village explained that Sastro Pratomo was the spiritual adviser to Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX. Due to his closeness to Sri Sultan HB IX, Sastro Pratomo is known as Mbah Ageng Mataram. Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX often came to visit Sastro Pratomo's house, even B.R.M. Herjuno Darpito, who holds the title K.G.P.H Mangkubumi (before being crowned as Sultan Hamengku Buwono X) also often visited Sastro Pratomo's house with his father Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX.
Sastro Pratomo's house is currently inhabited and owned by Sri Subening (eldest daughter of Sastro Pratomo's third wife) and her husband Andang Suhartanto. Sastro Pratomo's house also has a high importance, because during the war for independence (clash II: December 1948 - July 1949), General Soedirman, while leading the guerrilla war, had stopped at Sastro Pratomo's house on December 21, 1948, although only 2 - 3 hours. Until now, the rooms and furniture used by General Soedirman are still well preserved.
General Soedirman's halfway house The traditional house for General Soedirman's layover at Playen is in the style of Javanese architecture with a sequence of buildings and layouts that relatively comply with Javanese architectural conventions, starting with the masquerade building (local name lintring) at the very front, followed by the building behind it. in the form of pendhapa, pringgitan, dalem ageng, pawon, and gandhok Vengen. There is a new building to the left of the pendhapa and dalem ageng in the form of a prayer room and ancillary buildings on the south side.
Lintring / mask is the leading building in the shape of a nyander klabang pyramid. This ligneous building is semi-open without high walls considering its profane nature. The walls on the left and right are low, while the front (between the four saka) is given a hek (balustrade), and between the two saka at the far left and right are left open for access. The roof frame made of wood consists of long beams, panyelak blanders (blandar slats), ander, molo, and jurai / dudur. The covering material for the roof is pressed tile, clay corrugated ridges with a gunungan ornament made of clay in the middle of the molo, as well as the bulges at the ends of the molo and the ends of the jurai. Underneath the front side beams there is srawing (sunscreen) made of ornate wooden planks which are installed between each of the two pillars. At the end of the series of girders on the front and sides, ornate rete-retes are installed as skirting boards. Ceramic floors. This floor material change occurred during renovations in 2017, without changing the overall shape and function of the linting.
The pendhapa building at the back (south side) of the linting is in the form of a joking pyramid. The series of pampanga blandar and panyelak blandar (kerek blandar) are supported by 8 (eight) saka. The original umpak Saka is covered with a white stone umpak decorated with yellow bromine carvings. Two mob support anchors stand on the two cartwheels in the center. There are only four saka in the middle. The ceiling using wooden boards is installed horizontally on the blandar. The roof covering material is in the form of chipped tiles with ridges made of zinc.
Umpak, saka pendhapa, and long bows and long bows
The front side walls of the pendhapa at the left and right ends are walls with a window each, while the middle wall is a combination of wood at the bottom and glass at the top with two doors in the middle as the main access to enter the pendhapa. The left and right walls of the pendhapa are made of masonry, with a door and a window in a symmetrical position on each side of the wall. The two windows on the outside are given vertical wooden bars/lattices, while the inside has two shutters with a butterfly fighting system. The south side wall (inner side) is plastered with masonry material, equipped with three wooden doors with double leaves (kuputarung) and double inside and out. Above the doorframe / frame is given an ornate tebeng with lung-lungan motifs. The door in the middle is taller than the two door walls on either side.
The Pringgitan building has a pyramid roof without pillars, because the roof structure is supported by the pendhapa and dalern ageng walls. The roofing material is pringgitan tile chips with ridges made of zinc. On the east and west sides of the pringgitan each there is a room. The west side room functioned as a bedroom while the east side room was formerly a dining room, and now functions as a lounge. In the middle of the pringgitan room there is a large and long table. According to the story, this pringgitan room used to be Sastro Pratomo's work space and also as a place for discussions between Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX and Sastro Pratomo. The pringgitan wall on the south side that separates pringgitan from dalem ageng has three symmetrical doors with a connecting door. A double door between pringgitan and deem ageng
pendhapa and pringgitan. The door that connects the pringgitan with the dalem ageng has a double door (butterflies) and is double, outside and inside. The three doors are on one side, the height of the door leaf (ineb) is only half the height of the other doors. On the wicket (kosen) above the door, there is a tebeng with lung-lung ornaments. The middle door cliff is higher than the side door cliff.
The Dalem Ageng building, which is often simply called a dalem (ndalem), is in the form of a joke pyramid, with eight saka. The chipped tile roof covers with wuwung clay (not crepus) ridges, so installing it is only with wire and nails connected to the jurai. Saka stands on a white stone pedestal, and supports a series of elongated blandar and panyelak blandar (keret blandar). The four middle saka are equipped with two long sunduk and two panyelak sunduk (sunduk kili). On the two wheelbarrows in the middle stood two anders supporting the molo. Usuk is installed with the ri gereh system, Patangaring made of teak wood as the front wall of the senthong tengen, middle senthong, and senthong kiwa. Each senthong is equipped with a door, it's just a shame that the middle senthong wall on the back side is currently opened as a connecting door between the dalem and the pawon/kitchen. The uniqueness of this dalem ageng house is the addition of two wooden-walled rooms on the right side of the middle senthong. The local community named the pantry which functions as a bedroom. On the jogan (lower floor of the jerambah) west side, there is a bed that is said to have been used by General Soedirman to rest.
The remains of the gandhok tengen building can still be seen, the long distance between the pendhapa, dalern and gandhok tengen has now been turned into a garage, while the west side of the dalem, which according to traditional Javanese building rules stood as gandhok kiwa, has changed to a musholla and the accompanying building.
The kitchen/pawon at the very back of this series of traditional houses has undergone changes. Aside from being a kitchen, on the west side a bathroom and toilet have been added. ***