The building was taken over by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments in Norway in 1873, and is one of the first farmhouses in this country that was preserved. It was moved to the Sunnhordland collection in Leirvik in 1934 and formally taken over by Sunnhordland Folk Museum in1980.
Bishop Neumann mentions the building as a smokehouse in 1828 when visiting Stord. At the museum it has been reconstructed with the smoke vent in the roof. Marks on the wall may indicate that it once was equipped with a smoke-stove. Otherwise the interior has been returned to its medieval state with earthen benches, a long table, earthen floor, and decoration on the walls (kroting). The box for the smoke vent was probably shifted when the building was moved. The new box has inscriptions and the year 1804 from the old one.
