1-Bed Fjordside Chalet with Private Dock & Sauna in Klokkarstua



Voldenveien 61B, 3490 Klokkarstua, Klokkarstua (Norway)
1 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 74m² Floor area
€433,628
Chalet
No parking
1 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
74m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step out onto the upper terrace on a Saturday morning and the Svelvikstrømmen is already alive. A kite surfer carves a long arc across the steel-blue water. A fishing boat putters south. The fjord smell — salt, pine, cold stone — drifts up through the open window above the kitchen sink, and you're standing there with coffee, wondering why you ever lived anywhere else.
That's the thing about this chalet on Voldenveien 61B in Klokkarstua. It doesn't perform. It just delivers.
The property sits right at the fjord's edge in the Verket district, a low-key stretch of Røyken municipality where the summer crowd knows what they've found and mostly keeps quiet about it. One bedroom, one bathroom, 74 square metres of well-considered interior space — and then roughly 90 square metres of terraces wrapped around the cabin at different levels, designed so you can chase the sun from morning to dusk without ever leaving your own plot. It's a compact footprint that lives much larger than the numbers suggest.
The chalet is in good condition throughout. Walk in through the entrance hall and you immediately notice how much natural light the place holds — large windows face the fjord, and on clear days the view straight across the water to the opposite shore is the kind of thing that makes people stop mid-sentence. The open-plan living room and kitchen occupy the main floor, and the fireplace in the corner changes the whole character of the room once autumn rolls in. Birch logs crackling while rain crosses the fjord in grey curtains — that's October here, and it's genuinely worth experiencing.
The kitchen is properly fitted: profiled cabinetry, stone side panels, a laminated countertop, ceramic cooktop, oven, full-size fridge, and a dishwasher. It's set up for real cooking, not just reheating. Above the living area, the loft bedroom opens onto its own terrace and connects through to an annex at the back of the cabin — additional space that previous owners have used as a guest room, a studio, a gear storage area. It's flexible in the best way.
The bathroom was renovated in 2009-10 and is fully tiled, with a shower niche, wall-mounted toilet, and vanity sink. What makes it genuinely uncommon is the sauna tucked directly alongside it — and the sauna has a window that looks out over the fjord. You sit in the heat, you watch the water. Then you walk thirty metres down to the private dock and jump in. That sequence — sauna, cold fjord, repeat — is a Scandinavian ritual that sounds extreme until you've done it once, and then you start planning your next visit around it.
The dock is the property's headline feature, and rightly so. Private waterfront access of any kind in this stretch of the Oslofjord is genuinely hard to come by. The dock sits just below the cabin and gives you direct fjord access for swimming, fishing off the edge, or keeping a small boat. The boathouse — a 17-square-metre naust — sits alongside and handles storage for kayaks, fishing gear, paddleboards, or whatever else you accumulate when you live on the water.
The plot covers 658 square metres in total, with a well-maintained, child-friendly garden and a hagestue (garden room) that acts as a sheltered outdoor sitting area for cooler days or unpredictable weather. Note that the garden room isn't officially registered, but it's a useful and well-built addition. The layered terraces mean you're rarely short of a place to sit outside, regardless of where the wind is coming from.
A word on the area. Klokkarstua is not a tourist town. It's a place where Norwegians from Drammen and the wider Viken region keep their summer cabins, and where the pace genuinely slows between June and August. The Svelvikstrømmen — the strait running between Klokkarstua and Svelvik — is one of the stronger tidal currents in inner Oslofjord, which is exactly why kite surfers appear on windy afternoons and why the fishing here (particularly for sea trout and mackerel in season) has a loyal following. Svelvik itself is a quick ferry ride across, and it's worth the crossing: a small town with a handful of good restaurants, a summer market scene, and an easy going harbour front.
The surrounding landscape is textbook Østlandet — rolling forested hills that drop to the fjord, trails that connect through the Røyken countryside, and a cycling network that extends all the way toward Drammen, about 25 minutes south by car. Drammen itself has undergone a real transformation over the last decade, with a revitalised riverfront, the Drammensbadet spa complex on Bragernes, and a restaurant and bar scene centred around Strømsø Torg that's worth a Friday night. Oslo is about an hour by car, or take the regional train from Drammen straight into Oslo S.
Summers here are warm and long — July and August regularly see temperatures in the mid-to-high twenties, and the fjord water warms up enough for comfortable swimming by late June. Spring arrives early on the west side of the fjord, and autumn holds colour well into October. This chalet works across all four seasons: water-based everything in summer, hiking and foraging in autumn, snow-dusted calm in winter when the road stays open year-round.
From a practical standpoint, the property is connected to public water and sewage, has broadband, and road access is maintained through winter. For international buyers looking at second home ownership in Norway, the process is straightforward — Norway places no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing property, and the market in coastal Viken has shown consistent long-term demand, particularly for waterfront plots with existing dock rights. The fjordside cabin market around the inner Oslofjord has proved resilient, and properties with private docks at this price point are increasingly rare.
Key features at a glance:
- Private dock with direct fjord access
- 17m2 boathouse (naust) for equipment storage
- Sauna with fjord views, directly connected to the bathroom
- Approximately 90m2 of terraces distributed around the cabin
- Loft bedroom opening to terrace with annex/extra room at rear
- Fireplace in open-plan living and kitchen area
- Fully fitted kitchen with dishwasher, ceramic cooktop, oven
- Bathroom renovated 2009-10 with full tiling and shower niche
- 658m2 plot with child-friendly garden and sheltered garden room
- Year-round road access and public water and sewage connections
- Broadband internet
- Ferry to Svelvik across the Svelvikstrømmen
- 25 minutes to Drammen, approx. 1 hour to Oslo
- No foreign ownership restrictions in Norway
- Solid second home vacation chalet in a low-inventory coastal market
This is one of those properties that photographs well but lives even better. The combination of a private dock, a functioning sauna, serious terrace space, and a genuine fjord position at this price is not something that comes up often — and when it does, it tends not to hang around.
Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing or request the full technical documentation. If you're seriously considering a vacation home in Norway or a second home on the Oslofjord, this one deserves to be at the top of your shortlist.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 1
- Size
- 74m²
- Price per m²
- €5,860
- Garden size
- 658m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Chalet
- Energy label
Unknown
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