1-Bed 1929 Country Home on 2,475m² Plot, 500m from the Sea – Kyllaj, Gotland



Hellvi Vivlings 749, Kyllaj, 624 50 Lärbro, Gotlands kommun, Sweden, Lärbro (Sweden)
1 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 69m² Floor area
€249,500
Country home
No parking
1 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
69m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a July morning and the air already carries salt from the Baltic. The rauks — those ancient limestone pillars rising from the water at Kyllaj — are catching the low sun about five hundred meters away, and the only sounds are wind through the birches and the distant clang of a mooring line at the small harbor. This is northern Gotland on a weekday, and it feels like the rest of the world doesn't exist.
This 1929 whitewashed country home has belonged to one family for roughly sixty years. That kind of continuity is unusual, and you can feel it. The proportions are honest, the walls are thick, and nothing about the place feels rushed or flipped. It sits on 2,475 square meters of mature garden — big enough for a vegetable patch, a lawn worth lying on, and still room for the kids to disappear somewhere between the trees.
At 69 square meters, the interior is compact but genuinely livable. The living room pulls in light from large windows that look straight onto the garden, and on a clear afternoon the brightness in that room is something else — white walls, wooden floors, and green outside every pane of glass. The kitchen keeps its rustic bones while running on modern appliances, with enough bench space to actually cook rather than just heat things up. Gotlandic lamb stew with local saffron, maybe, or fresh-caught pike-perch from one of the fishing spots along the northern coast. The bedroom is a proper quiet room — not a converted alcove — with the kind of stillness at night that urban buyers simply haven't experienced in years.
What sets this property apart from most holiday homes in Sweden isn't the house itself. It's everything around it. The earth cellar keeps wine and root vegetables at a natural cool temperature without a single kilowatt of electricity. The friggebod — the small timber guest cottage under Swedish building regulations — means visitors actually get their own space rather than the sofa. There's a garage for the car or the kayaks, and a large storage shed for the rest of life's gear. These outbuildings aren't an afterthought. They're what make a summer place function as a real base.
Kyllaj is one of those spots that Swedes themselves treat as a closely held secret. The harbor is tiny, used mostly by locals with small boats, and the swimming area just off the limestone shelf draws clear, shallow Baltic water that warms up genuinely well by mid-June. The rauk formations here — the geological stacks that dominate Gotland's coastline — are particularly dramatic along this stretch, and walking among them at low tide on an evening in August is the kind of thing that doesn't leave you. It's a twenty-minute cycle into Lärbro for the basics: a supermarket, a pharmacy, a hardware store. Visby, the medieval walled city and the cultural heartbeat of the island, is about 55 kilometers south — an easy drive when you want it, far enough away when you don't.
Gotland runs on seasons, and each one earns its place. Midsommar brings the long evenings and the traditional celebrations that still happen properly here, with local communities raising maypoles and the smell of herring and new potatoes drifting across every garden. The Medieval Week in Visby in August fills the cobblestone lanes inside the old city wall with craftspeople, jousting, and fire performances — genuinely one of the largest medieval festivals in Europe, drawing over 40,000 visitors to an island of 60,000 people. Come September, the tourist crowds thin out and the island goes golden. The cycling routes through juniper heathland and past Iron Age burial mounds are at their best in the cool autumn air. Gotland's micro-climate is the mildest in Sweden — more sunshine hours than almost anywhere else in the country, and winters that rarely feel brutal.
For international buyers, Sweden's property purchase process is relatively open. There are no restrictions on foreign nationals buying residential real estate, and the transaction process through a licensed broker is transparent and well-regulated. The property is currently in good condition and ready for immediate use, which removes the renovation equation entirely from your first summer here. Rental income is a realistic consideration too — Gotland's summer rental market is consistently strong, with demand outstripping supply in the northern coastal areas year after year. A property this close to the sea, with outbuildings and a large garden, carries genuine short-term rental appeal. Hemavan Travel and similar local management operators handle everything remotely for owners who aren't based in Sweden.
The island is a 50-minute flight from Stockholm Arlanda, or three hours by high-speed ferry from Nynäshamn. Once you're here, a bicycle handles most of what a car would elsewhere.
Key features at a glance:
1929 whitewashed country home in good, move-in ready condition
69 square meters of living space across two main rooms
1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
2,475 square meter mature garden plot
Approximately 500 meters walk to the sea at Kyllaj harbor
Traditional earth cellar for natural food and wine storage
Friggebod guest cottage for additional overnight accommodation
Garage and large storage shed
Large, light-filled living room with garden views
Functional kitchen with modern appliances and rustic character
55km from Visby's medieval city center
Regular ferry and flight connections to Stockholm
Strong summer rental market in northern Gotland
No restrictions on foreign buyers purchasing Swedish residential property
Immediate occupancy available
Owning a vacation home on Gotland isn't a particularly loud proposition. It's not a ski chalet that demands Instagram, or a coastal villa on a crowded Mediterranean strip. It's quieter than that, and more enduring. This specific place — the limestone coast, the harbor, the flat light in the evenings, the particular silence of the Swedish countryside at night — gets under your skin in a way that's hard to articulate until you've been here.
Contact the Homestra team to arrange a viewing or request the full documentation pack. Properties in Kyllaj at this price point move quickly in the spring market, and this one, held in one family for six decades, won't sit around waiting.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 1
- Size
- 69m²
- Price per m²
- €3,616
- Garden size
- 2475m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Country home
- Energy label
Unknown
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