3-Bed 1909 Farmhouse on 3.4 Hectares in Southern Gotland – Vacation Home with Outbuildings



Fardhem Hägsarve 516, 623 52 Hemse, Gotland, Sweden, Hemse (Sweden)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 94m² Floor area
€175,000
Country home
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
94m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step off the road between Fardhem and Linde on a still June morning and you'll hear it first — the absolute quiet. Not the silence of emptiness, but the full, living quiet of 3.4 hectares of mature garden, open fields, and old forest pressing in from every side. This is Gotland at its most unhurried, and this 1909 wooden farmhouse sits right in the middle of it.
Built when Swedish craftsmen still fitted houses with hand-planed wooden floors and deep-set windows designed to hold the long Nordic light, this three-bedroom country home has spent over a century earning its character. The bones are solid. The atmosphere is unmistakable. At 94 square metres of living space, plus an additional 44 square metres of secondary area, the house is compact in the way that Swedish farmhouses always were — every room deliberate, nothing wasted. The original wooden floors creak in exactly the right places. Windows frame views of the farmyard and fields beyond like paintings that change with every season.
The property needs work — that's stated plainly here because buyers who find this listing will appreciate honesty over gloss. Maintenance has been deferred over the years, and the kitchen in particular is ready for a proper overhaul. But that's precisely why this is such a rare find on the Gotland second home market. Properties with this much land, this many original features, and this kind of quiet address almost never come available at this price point. Buyers who've been priced out of the increasingly competitive Visby market have been quietly turning their attention south, and Hemse-area farmhouses like this one are exactly what they're looking for.
The outbuildings deserve a paragraph of their own. Several former agricultural structures sit on the plot, unused for active farming since roughly the early 1990s. Structurally, they represent serious possibilities: a guest annexe, a painting studio, a ceramics workshop, a summer kitchen for entertaining, or simply generous dry storage for kayaks and bicycles. Many buyers purchasing vacation homes in rural Gotland have converted exactly these kinds of outbuildings into self-contained guest quarters that effectively pay for their own renovation through short-term rental income during the island's peak summer season.
About that season. Gotland summers are genuinely different from the Swedish mainland — warmer, drier, and longer-feeling, with a particular quality of light that has been drawing artists and photographers to the island for generations. Almedalen Week in late June and early July transforms Visby, just over 35 kilometres north, into one of Europe's most unusual political and cultural gatherings. Medieval Week in August fills the cobbled streets of Visby's UNESCO-listed old town with thousands of costumed participants and outdoor theatre. The island's farmers' markets, particularly the one at Roma in central Gotland, run through summer with local lamb, saffron pancakes, and the kind of island-grown produce that makes cooking feel like the point of the whole trip.
Cycling is essentially the default mode of transport on Gotland once summer arrives. The roads around Fardhem and Linde are quiet enough that you can ride for hours without seeing much traffic — south toward the dramatic coastal raukar limestone stacks at Hoburgen, or east toward the shore at Ljugarn, where the water runs shallow and warm over white sand. The lake at Asträsk is just 3.6 kilometres from the property, reachable on a bicycle in under fifteen minutes, and it's the kind of swimming spot that doesn't appear in guidebooks — known mainly to locals and the families who've been coming to southern Gotland for decades.
Hemse itself, the main service town for the southern half of the island, is a short drive away. It has everything a practical homeowner needs: ICA supermarket, healthcare centre, a secondary school, and several decent restaurants serving local Gotlandic lamb and fish. It's not glamorous, but it's genuinely functional in a way that many rural Swedish communities stopped being long ago.
For international buyers, Gotland is one of the more accessible Swedish island destinations. Visby Airport operates year-round flights from Stockholm Arlanda in around 35 minutes, and the ferry from Nynäshamn south of Stockholm takes roughly three hours to Visby harbour. The island has a well-established property market for non-Swedish buyers, and the legal process for EU citizens purchasing Swedish real estate is straightforward. Non-EU buyers should consult with a Swedish property lawyer to confirm current regulations, though Sweden has historically maintained relatively open property ownership rules for foreign nationals.
The investment case here is a longer-term one. This is not a property you buy and immediately rent out. It's a property you restore over two or three seasons, making it yours in the process — choosing which outbuilding becomes a studio, which corner of the garden gets the vegetable beds, whether the old barn becomes a guest house or a garage. Gotland's vacation rental market is genuinely strong during July and August, with well-presented rural properties routinely achieving premium nightly rates. A fully renovated farmhouse with guest accommodation on 3.4 hectares in this location would sit comfortably at the top of that market.
Winters on Gotland are mild by Swedish standards — rarely the deep freezes of the mainland — but quiet in a way that many owners find they actually enjoy. The island has a resident population that keeps cultural life ticking along: art exhibitions at Gotlands Konstmuseum in Visby, concerts at the medieval church ruins that dot the interior, and the particular pleasure of having the island essentially to yourself while the summer crowds are gone.
Key features:
- Traditional wooden farmhouse constructed in 1909 with original period details
- 3 bedrooms across 94 sqm of living space
- 1 bathroom
- Additional 44 sqm secondary area ideal for storage, workshop, or studio use
- 3.4-hectare (34,000 sqm) plot including mature garden, farmyard, and arable land
- Multiple outbuildings with strong conversion potential for guest accommodation or creative use
- Quiet rural road between Fardhem and Linde in southern Gotland
- 3.6 km to Asträsk lake for swimming and fishing
- Short drive to Hemse with full range of amenities
- Approximately 35 km from Visby, Gotland's UNESCO-listed capital
- Year-round flights from Stockholm to Visby Airport (approx. 35 minutes)
- Significant renovation scope — ideal for buyers wanting to create a bespoke retreat
- Strong vacation rental market in Gotland with peak season premium rates
- Listed at €175,000 — rare entry point for a large-plot Gotland farmhouse
This kind of property — this much land, this much original character, this address — doesn't sit on the market long, even in its current condition. If you've been considering a vacation home in Sweden or a second home in Scandinavia, and you want something with room to breathe and room to grow, reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing. The island is best seen in person, and so is this house.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 94m²
- Price per m²
- €1,862
- Garden size
- 34000m²
- 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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