The road guard housing

At the yard there are three buildings; living room, cage and outbuilding. The state bought this living room as a home for the road warden on the interstate highway in 1870, and it is the country's first public road warden's home and is now owned by the state road authority.

Before 1870, the living room stood on a farmstead, probably under one of the Inndal farms (Inndal østre), and we do not know for sure how old it is. It is nevertheless clear that the house was already old in 1870, when it was extensively restored after the state bought it. This becomes clear when we know that the purchase price was NOK 240, while the costs for restoration were a whopping NOK 289,69. 

Before the living room was moved to the museum in 1987, it had a pitched roof. The sod roof was put on as soon as the living room was moved to the museum. The living room is built of reclaimed timber and has external dimensions of approx. 11×6 m. On the first floor there is a three-room plan with hallway, living room and kitchen. On the second floor there are three bedrooms, one of which was used as a teacher's bedroom for a while in the interwar period.

Vaterholmen was a camp for Home Guard soldiers, and the road guard's residence could be used as a market, which means that the wife in the house sold "non-military" goods such as soap, tobacco, beverages and the like. The road wardens lived with their large families in this living room until 1948, with eight, eleven and fourteen children respectively. 

In the same way as the bakery, the road guard's house is an example of stronger specialization in society towards the end of the 1800th century. The cage has also been on Vaterholmen. It was built in the 1930s and is quite small, with external dimensions of approx. 4×2,8m. The construction method is lath plank of spruce. 

The outhouse is a reconstruction of an old outbuilding from Vemundvik near Namsos. External dimensions are 11,7×5,7m. The materials are partly from the outhouse on Vaterholmen and an old barn on Hallem near Stiklestad. The roof tiles are from the old rectory loan in Vuku and an old mass house from Stuskin. In the outhouse the road guard families kept their livestock, usually a cow, a pig and some chickens. The yard by the road guard's residence was given a new shape in 1999. Then a fence with gates was put up and a cane stream and a brook for horses were made.