Rychta - Hamousův statek, Historic farmstead in Zbečno, Rakovník District, Czech Republic

Hamousův statek in Zbečno is a former rychta (village magistrate's seat) standing on the north side of the village square opposite St. Martin's church. Its residential house is mainly timber-framed, with two-storey chambers above cellars; in the courtyard only a torso of the pillared barn survives, and a later brick cowshed with hayloft stands in the raised northeast corner.

Dendrochronology dates the oak beams of the lower chamber above the cellars to 1577–1583, with fir beams added up to 1756 and the large room's walls to 1746–1747. The wooden black kitchen was rebuilt in masonry in 1716, and a tavern operated here before 1763. Farmer Dominik Hamous held the office of rychtář after 1817.

The name Hamousův statek comes from the farmer Dominik Hamous, who held the office of rychtář (village magistrate) here after 1817. Before 1763 the building also housed a tavern. The exhibition shows period furnishings of the living rooms together with agricultural and craft tools.

The house stands on the northern side of the village square, opposite the church of St Martin, with the residential building in the southwestern corner of the plot. The black kitchen with its bread oven opens off the entrance hall, the large living room lies to the right, and the two-storey chambers are to the left. The site has been open to the public since 1995.

The bread oven in the bricked black kitchen was rebuilt in 1997–1998; the original wooden kitchen was walled in brick in 1716. The house stayed inhabited until 1992, when the last owner sold it to the Central Bohemian Institute of Monuments.