1-Bed 1887 Cottage with Garden & Guest House Near Stockholm – Hallstavik Second Home



Sandgropsvägen 26, 763 92 Hallstavik, Norrtälje kommun, Sweden, Hallstavik (Sweden)
1 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 53m² Floor area
€225,000
House
No parking
1 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
53m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a July morning in Hallstavik and the air smells like warm pine resin and wet grass. The forest starts just beyond the wooden fence. Coffee in hand, you sit on the deck and watch a thrush work its way through the raised beds. This is not a fantasy—this is a Tuesday.
Sandgropsvägen 26 is a red-painted Swedish cottage from 1887 sitting on a 1,860-square-metre plot that has been shaped, planted, and cared for over many years into something genuinely worth seeing. The garden alone would justify the visit. Gravel paths thread between fruit trees, mature perennials, and raised planting beds that produce through late spring all the way into October. There's a small greenhouse where you can start seedlings in March while snow is still piled against the fence outside. A guest cottage sits separately on the plot—useful whether you have friends coming for midsommar or you need a quiet room away from everything to read, paint, or work.
Inside the main house, the kitchen sets the tone immediately. Open shelving, beadboard paneling, natural light coming through small windows at an angle that makes the whole room feel like it belongs to a different century—in the best way. Nothing is showy. The materials are honest and the proportions are right. You can cook a proper meal here: Swedish classics like raggmunk with lingonberries or a slow-simmered fish soup made from whatever the local fishermen brought into Grisslehamn that morning. The living room next to it is quiet and warm, the kind of room where you sit down intending to read for twenty minutes and look up two hours later. Soft colors, natural textures, windows facing the garden.
Upstairs is more compact but well thought out. A newer bathroom handles the practical side without fuss. The bedroom is bright, positioned to catch morning light. And there's a family room with storage that works exactly as it is or converts easily into a second bedroom—handy if you have children or if guests need to stay in the main house rather than the cottage. At 53 square meters total, this isn't a house for hoarding. It rewards simplicity and careful living.
Now, the location. Hallstavik sits in Norrtälje kommun on the Roslagen coast—a stretch of eastern Sweden that Stockholm's archipelago tourism machine somehow hasn't fully claimed yet. That's actually the point. Roslagen has its own culture, its own pace, its own light in August that painters have been coming here to capture since the 19th century. The poet Evert Taube wrote about this coastline. The village of Grisslehamn, where August Strindberg once rented a room and stared at the Baltic, is about 25 minutes north by car. It still has a harbour, a few boats, a small museum, and a café that does cinnamon buns worth the detour.
The sea is 6.8 kilometres from this property. The nearest lake is roughly 3 kilometres. Summer in this part of Sweden is for swimming—long, flat rocks warmed by the sun, water that gets surprisingly warm by July, silence interrupted only by oystercatchers. Autumn is for mushrooms and berries. The forest immediately surrounding the garden yields chanterelles in good years if you know where to look, and the lingonberry season runs into September. Winter here is genuinely cold and genuinely beautiful—proper snow, frozen lakes suitable for skating, cross-country ski trails that run through the woods around Norrtälje about 30 kilometres south. Spring arrives loudly: migratory birds use this coastline as a flyway, and birders from Stockholm drive up specifically for the May spectacle.
Speaking of Stockholm: it's about 75 minutes by car, or you can take the bus from Hallstavik through Norrtälje and arrive at Stockholm's city center in roughly the same time. Uppsala, Sweden's university city with its cathedral, its market halls, and its slightly slower rhythm than the capital, is around an hour away. For everyday needs you don't need to go that far—Hallstavik has a supermarket, and the local swimming hall is about a ten-minute drive, as is a bakery worth knowing about.
For international buyers considering this as a vacation home in Sweden or a second home in Scandinavia, some practical notes. Sweden's property purchase process is relatively clean and transparent compared to many European markets—there's no restriction on foreign ownership of residential property, the land registry is reliable, and transaction costs are modest. Properties in Roslagen have held their value steadily; the combination of reasonable prices relative to the Stockholm market and genuine demand from city-based Swedish buyers creates a solid floor. Rental income is achievable if you want to offset ownership costs during the weeks you're not here—the proximity to Stockholm makes this area a consistent draw for short-term holiday renters from late June through August.
The property is in good condition and realistically move-in ready. The updated bathroom upstairs means you're not walking into a renovation project. The garden requires attention—that's the point, that's the pleasure—but nothing about the structural condition signals urgent work. The guest cottage adds genuine practical flexibility that increases the property's value both for personal use and for rental purposes.
Key features at a glance:
- Historic 1887 Swedish red cottage in original character, 53 sq m
- 1,860 sq m plot with mature garden, fruit trees, and perennial borders
- Separate guest cottage on the property for visitors or personal use
- Small greenhouse for year-round growing
- Updated bathroom on the upper floor
- Convertible family room that functions as a second bedroom
- Wooden deck with direct garden and forest views
- Forest directly adjacent to the property—immediate access on foot
- 3 km to the nearest lake, 6.8 km to the Baltic Sea
- Grisslehamn harbour village approximately 25 minutes by car
- Norrtälje town center around 30 minutes; Stockholm around 75 minutes
- Year-round access—well suited as a full-time home or seasonal retreat
- No foreign ownership restrictions for international buyers
- Consistent short-term rental demand from Stockholm-based holidaymakers
- Price: 225,000 EUR
This is the kind of property that gets rarer each year. A genuinely old house that has been kept up, a real garden that took decades to develop, a quiet location that still has working infrastructure around it—and a price that reflects the current market rather than someone's wishful thinking. If you've been considering a second home in Sweden or a holiday base in the Stockholm archipelago region, this is a serious option.
Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing or to get more information. The summer calendar fills up—if this property speaks to you, don't wait until next season to find out it's gone.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 1
- Size
- 53m²
- Price per m²
- €4,245
- Garden size
- 1860m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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