3-Bed 1909 Country House with Spa Deck & 3,284m² Garden — Klockrike Vacation Home



Klockrike Ättorpa 835 Johannesberg, 591 78 Klockrike, Sweden, Klockrike (Sweden)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 95m² Floor area
€239,500
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
95m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The first thing you notice on a Saturday morning is the silence. Not the absence of sound exactly — there's a wood pigeon somewhere in the birch trees, and from the kitchen the smell of coffee curling through a window cracked open just enough — but the particular quality of quiet that belongs to Östergötland's countryside. It's the kind of place that reminds you why people used to fight over land this good.
This 1909 farmhouse in Klockrike has been thoughtfully brought into the 21st century without anyone stripping out what made it worth saving in the first place. The bones are original. The updates are real. And the plot — 3,284 square meters of garden, mature trees, and open sky — gives the whole thing a sense of scale that you simply don't find in the city.
Step through the entrance hall added in 2019 and you're in a home that's had serious thought put into how people actually live. The ground floor living room has an open fireplace that becomes the undisputed center of family life from October to April. Slide open the door from there and you're on a 40-square-meter wooden deck with a spa bath sitting right in the middle of it. On a clear evening in July, with the garden going gold in late light and the temperature still warm enough to stay outside well past nine, that deck earns its keep in ways that no interior room ever could.
The kitchen was renovated in 2017 and 2018 and it makes an interesting choice: a traditional wood-burning stove alongside a modern gas hob. That's not an accident. Whoever designed this kitchen understood that cooking on wood is a completely different rhythm than cooking on gas, and some meals just call for it — a slow ragout on a November afternoon, bread that gets its crust from radiant heat. A bedroom sits just off the kitchen on the ground floor, which makes the layout surprisingly adaptable, and a smaller adjacent room handles whatever the household needs it to be: office, reading room, occasional guest space.
Upstairs, two generous bedrooms flank a large family room that works equally well as a gathering space or a retreat for children to claim as their own. A newly built shower room and WC, with the shower completed in 2025, means the sanitary side of things is completely current. No compromises there.
The basement runs practical, full of storage and a proper laundry room. The property has a new Alnarp bio-purification sewage system from 2021 — relevant for anyone thinking seriously about environmental standards or long-term maintenance costs. Fiber internet is already connected, which matters if you're running this place as a part-time base for remote work, or if teenagers need to stay connected while the adults go hiking.
Klockrike sits in the corridor between Motala and Linköping — two very different cities that between them cover most of what you'd need. Motala is roughly 15 kilometers west: a lake town on Vättern's eastern shore, with a summer festival scene, good cycling routes, and a credible café culture. Linköping is 30 kilometers east and is genuinely one of Sweden's more underrated mid-sized cities — home to Saab's aerospace museum, a well-preserved medieval cathedral quarter, and a restaurant scene that punches above its size. Neither city feels like a commute if you're living this part-time. Both feel like useful anchors.
The immediate neighborhood is horse country. The farms here are working operations, and the roads between them are quiet enough for cycling with children. The Älvan exercise trail in nearby Fornåsa is 1.6 kilometers, lit for winter use, and maintained by the local sports club. There's also an outdoor gym at the trailhead — useful if you want to stay active without driving anywhere. For families, there are preschools and primary schools (grades F through 6) in both Fornåsa and Klockrike, and Fornåsa has a grocery store, a gas station, and a pizzeria that the locals actually use, which is always a better sign than one built for passing traffic.
Östergötland has four seasons that genuinely feel different from each other. Winter here is cold and often white, which makes the fireplace and spa bath feel like deliberate design decisions rather than features on a checklist. Spring arrives fast, and the garden wakes up almost aggressively — this is productive soil, good for growing things, and the plot has room for raised beds, fruit trees, or whatever project you want to give yourself. Summer evenings in this part of Sweden have a particular quality: daylight that stretches until nearly eleven, warmth that never quite tips into the uncomfortable, and a stillness at dusk that you don't forget. Autumn is arguably the best time to be here — the birch trees turn sharp yellow in September, mushrooms appear in the forest margins, and the whole region feels like it's settling into something honest.
For international buyers looking at second homes in Sweden, this is an accessible entry point. The price is realistic for the market, the renovations are recent and documented, and the property is in good, move-in ready condition. Sweden's property ownership laws are open to foreign nationals, and the transaction process is straightforward compared to many European markets. Rental demand in the Östergötland countryside has grown steadily as Swedish urban dwellers look for short-term rural escapes — the fiber internet and spa facilities make this an easier short-term rental proposition than most comparable properties in the area. A local property management firm in Motala or Linköping can handle rentals and maintenance if you're managing from abroad.
Key features at a glance:
— 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 95 square meters of interior space on a 3,284 m² plot
— 1909 farmhouse with 19th-century roots, renovated entrance hall added 2019
— Open fireplace in the living room
— 40 m² outdoor wooden deck with spa bath
— Kitchen renovated 2017/2018 with wood-burning stove and gas hob
— New shower room and WC completed 2025
— Alnarp bio-purification sewage system installed 2021
— High-speed fiber internet connected
— Basement storage and laundry room
— Carport and multi-vehicle parking
— Illuminated 1.6 km exercise trail and outdoor gym at nearby Fornåsa
— 15 km to Motala, 30 km to Linköping
— Schools, grocery store, and local services within easy reach in Fornåsa and Klockrike
— Realistic rental income potential as a rural Swedish holiday home
Properties like this one — where the work has genuinely been done, the plot is big enough to give you breathing room, and the location connects to real towns rather than just scenery — don't sit on the market long in Östergötland. If you've been looking for a vacation home in Sweden that offers both solitude and practicality, this is worth a serious conversation. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a private viewing or to get detailed documentation on the recent renovations and local ownership considerations for international buyers.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 95m²
- Price per m²
- €2,521
- Garden size
- 3284m²
- 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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