3-Bed Coastal Chalet with Private Boat Slip & Sea Views in Gjeving – Holiday Home



Bryggeslengen 1, 4912 Gjeving, Gjeving (Norway)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 78m² Floor area
€549,000
Chalet
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
78m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
You wake up, slide open the double doors, and the smell of salt air and sun-warmed timber hits you before you've even had your first coffee. The water out toward Lyngør is completely still. A fishing boat putters past in the distance. This is a Tuesday morning in Gjeving — and it feels like the rest of the world doesn't exist.
Bryggeslengen 1 sits at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac on an elevated 456 square metre plot, tucked just far enough from the road that the only thing you hear is wind through the pines and the occasional clunk of a boat hull against a dock. Designed in 1994 by Stokkeboskjær Architects in the classic Southern Norway coastal style — white-painted timber, pitched roof, covered terrace — the chalet has that rare quality of feeling both genuinely Norwegian and completely liveable. At 78 square metres across three bedrooms, it's compact without feeling cramped, and every square metre earns its keep.
The heart of the cabin is the open living and kitchen space, where large windows face out over the water. On grey November afternoons, the fireplace does serious work as a room divider and heat source. Come June, those same double doors stay open all day, blurring the line between the covered terrace and the interior so completely that you're not quite sure where you're sitting — inside or outside, it doesn't much matter. The kitchen comes fully equipped, storage is generous, and the countertop space actually accommodates proper cooking rather than just reheating. Move-in ready from day one.
Three bedrooms sleep six comfortably. The main room has space for a proper double bed, wardrobe, and nightstands — not a squeeze. The two smaller rooms suit children well, or guests who won't complain about a cosy maritime bunk aesthetic. The single bathroom is tiled and modern, with a wide-basin sink, wall-mounted toilet, shower corner, and underfloor heating that makes barefoot mornings far more civilised than they'd otherwise be in a Norwegian autumn.
Storage here is taken seriously. The entrance hall handles wet weather gear without drama. There's an internal storeroom, and an external 8 square metre shed takes care of kayak paddles, fishing rods, crab traps, and the general accumulation of coastal kit that any serious holiday home needs. Parking for two cars on the stone-paved approach rounds things out practically.
Then there's the dock. A private boat slip in the nearby marina puts the Lyngør archipelago within fifteen minutes by water. Lyngør itself — a car-free island community of wooden 19th-century houses that somehow avoided the 1812 British naval bombardment of the Norwegian coast, and later became Norway's most celebrated "best-preserved old town" — is the kind of place where you tie up at the guest dock, walk to the Lyngør Fjord Hotel for a cold Ringnes and a plate of fresh shrimp, and find yourself still there three hours later. The islands of Sandøya and Borøya are equally worth a morning's exploration; pack a thermos and the barbecue grill.
Directly below the property, Lestholmen is a small island — more a large smooth-rock outcropping with a sandy pocket beach — that locals treat as a natural extension of the garden. In July and August, the water temperature here reaches 20–22°C on good summers. Kids jump from the rocks. Adults swim out and float on their backs staring at a sky that is so blue it seems overexposed.
Gjeving sits on the Aust-Agder coast between Risør and Tvedestrand, in the heart of the region Norwegians call Sørlandet — the Southland — which gets more summer sunshine than anywhere else in Norway, with July and August regularly hitting 25–28°C and barely any rain. It's not the Norway of grey drizzle and winter darkness that international buyers sometimes imagine. The summers here are long, warm, and golden in a way that surprises people from further south in Europe who expect otherwise.
The town itself is small and intentionally so. Nybrygga, a five-minute walk down the hill, has a kiosk, a waterfront restaurant, and the kind of dock energy in summer where half the neighbourhood has their boat out. A grocery store is a 14-minute walk. The Lyngør Fjord Hotel brings cultural weight — its restaurant consistently sources local langoustine and mackerel from nearby waters, and the annual Lyngørregatta brings in sailors from across Scandinavia every summer. The ferry to Lyngør departs five minutes from the cabin. A bus stop four minutes away connects to Tvedestrand and Arendal, the nearest city, roughly 30 minutes by road.
For international buyers, this part of Norway is accessible and legally uncomplicated. EU and EEA citizens can purchase Norwegian holiday property without restrictions. Non-EEA buyers may require a concession, though for properties of this type in non-agricultural zones, the process is typically straightforward. Norway has no inheritance tax, and Norwegian property law is transparent and well-regulated. Rental income from holiday properties is taxed but the framework is clear and manageable — and a chalet with a private boat slip in the Lyngør area commands reliable summer rental demand from Norwegian and Scandinavian families who know this coastline well.
At €549,000, this is a realistic entry point into one of Southern Norway's most coveted coastal stretches. The Risør-Tvedestrand corridor has seen steady property value appreciation over the past decade as demand from Oslo-based second-home buyers and international Scandinavian buyers has grown. The cabin is in good condition and requires no immediate capital investment — it is, to put it plainly, ready to use this coming summer.
Key features at a glance:
- 3 bedrooms sleeping up to 6, with 1 modern tiled bathroom with underfloor heating
- 78 sqm interior on a 456 sqm freehold elevated plot
- Private boat slip in the nearby marina with direct access to Lyngør archipelago
- Open-plan living and kitchen with large windows and sea views toward Lyngør
- Wood-burning fireplace as central feature of living area
- Covered terrace with sun exposure from morning through evening
- Steps from Lestholmen — a small island with sandy beach and swimming rocks
- 8 sqm external storage shed for kayaks, bicycles, fishing gear
- 2 dedicated parking spaces on stone-paved approach
- Connected to public water and sewage; electricity throughout
- 5 minutes to ferry terminal, 4 minutes to bus stop
- 14-minute walk to grocery store; 21 minutes to shopping centre
- Nybrygga waterfront kiosk and restaurant within walking distance
- Designed in 1994 in classic Southern Norway coastal architectural style
- Energy label D — scope to improve efficiency with minor insulation upgrades
If this sounds like the coastal escape you've been picturing — or if you want to see the view from that covered terrace in person — get in touch through Homestra today to arrange a private viewing. Summer fills up fast on the Sørlandet coast, and so do the good properties.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 78m²
- Price per m²
- €7,038
- Garden size
- 456m²
- 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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