3-Bed Country Home with Sauna & Orchard Garden – Vacation Home in Zinkgruvan, Sweden



Slottsstigen 13, 696 76 Zinkgruvan, Askersunds kommun, Sweden, Zinkgruvan (Sweden)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 105m² Floor area
€43,250
Country home
No parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
105m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a Saturday morning in late August, coffee in hand, and count the apple trees from the balcony. Six of them. The meadow below has gone gold overnight, and somewhere just past the woodshed, a blackbird is making an unreasonable amount of noise. This is Slottsstigen 13 — a solid 1906 country home on a 3,170 square meter plot in Zinkgruvan, central Sweden, and it's the kind of place that makes you stop checking your phone.
Zinkgruvan is a small, quiet village in Askersunds kommun, historically built around its silver and zinc mining industry — you can still visit the old mine. But what draws people here now is simpler: forests that go on for miles, lakes within cycling distance, and a pace of life that feels genuinely disconnected from everything. This is rural Sweden at its most unfiltered. No tourist crowds, no boutique hotel prices. Just pine trees, clean air, and neighbours who wave.
The house itself sits on a leasehold plot and spreads across 105 square meters of living space across three floors, including a basement. The bones are good — built in an era when timber was thick and craftsmanship wasn't rushed. Walking through the front porch into the hallway, a wood-burning stove greets you. In October, when the birches outside have gone fully yellow and the temperature drops fast after sunset, that stove earns its place. The hallway is furnished and leads you naturally into the rest of the ground floor.
The kitchen faces two directions, which matters more than it sounds — cross-light makes cooking feel less like a chore and more like an event. The wooden cabinet fronts give it a farmhouse quality without being precious about it. Practically speaking, it's fully equipped: dishwasher, integrated oven, fridge-freezer, extractor fan, and an air-source heat pump. The second heat pump sits in the living room, which has beautiful original wooden floors and enough space to seat a proper gathering. Adjacent to the living room is a flexible room — currently set up as a bedroom, but swap the bed for a long dining table and suddenly you have the space for the kind of summer dinners that last until midnight.
Upstairs, the staircase is original wood — it creaks slightly, which some buyers find charming and others find annoying, so know your audience when you're bringing people to view. The upper hallway opens onto a balcony where, if the weather cooperates, you'll eat breakfast every single morning of summer. Two bedrooms sit up here: one with wooden floors and a sloped ceiling with a storage nook tucked underneath, the other with carpet. The bathroom on this level is tiled around the shower and washbasin, and includes a washing machine — a detail that matters enormously if you're thinking about longer stays or rental use. There's also a separate ground-floor WC, which solves the morning queue problem for families.
The basement deserves more than a passing mention. Storage rooms, a hobby room, a pantry, and a boiler room with an older wood and pellet boiler that isn't currently in use — but it's there if you want it. For a buyer planning extended winter stays, restoring that secondary heating source is worth considering. It's practical space: garden tools, firewood, home-preserved cloudberry jam. That sort of thing.
Outside is where Slottsstigen 13 really makes its argument. The garden is enormous by any reasonable standard — berry bushes (currants, likely gooseberries), fruit trees, and a section the current owners have left to grow wild into a proper meadow. Biodiversity wasn't an accident here; it was a choice. On summer evenings, the meadow hums with insects and the occasional deer will edge close to the treeline. The outbuildings include a traditional Swedish sauna — non-negotiable for anyone who wants to understand how people actually live here — plus a woodshed and a storage shed. There's also a small older cottage on the plot that needs renovation, but represents real potential: a guest cabin, a studio, a teenage retreat.
Surrounding the village, the landscape is classic Swedish Bergslagen — rolling forests of spruce and pine, dotted with lakes that are clean enough to swim in from late June through August. Lake Vättern, one of Europe's largest lakes, is accessible via Askersund, roughly 20 kilometres away. Askersund itself is a proper small town with a functioning high street, waterfront restaurants serving perch caught that same week, and a summer festival calendar that fills the marina with wooden sailboats. In winter, the cross-country ski trails around Finspång and Örebro are within an hour's drive.
Örebro, the nearest major city, sits about 70 kilometres northwest and has a medieval castle, a strong restaurant scene anchored by local produce, and a train station with direct connections to Stockholm in under two hours. For international buyers flying in, Stockholm Arlanda Airport is roughly two and a half hours by car, or you can reach Örebro Airport in under an hour.
The Swedish countryside has attracted a steady stream of second-home buyers from across Europe over the past decade — particularly from Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK — drawn by relatively accessible property prices, political stability, high-quality natural environments, and straightforward ownership rules for EU and non-EU buyers alike. Sweden imposes no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing property. Leasehold plots (tomträtt) like this one involve a ground rent paid to the municipality rather than outright land ownership, which is standard practice across Sweden and well-understood by local solicitors. A Swedish estate agent or buyer's lawyer can walk you through the process, which is transparent and well-regulated.
At €43,250, this property sits firmly in the category of accessible second-home investment. The Swedish vacation rental market in rural areas has grown consistently, particularly for properties with saunas, gardens, and outdoor space — all of which this home has. Platforms like Airbnb and local Swedish rental networks regularly show strong demand for summer weeks in Bergslagen, especially from urban Swedes escaping Stockholm and Gothenburg. If rental income is part of your thinking, the ground floor WC, the spacious garden, and that sauna are your three strongest selling points.
Some furnishings are included in the sale. The property is in good condition overall, with room for updates that will reflect your own taste — a fresh coat of paint here, updated bathroom fixtures there, that cottage in the garden when you're ready for a project.
Key features at a glance:
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms across 105 sqm of living space
- Built in 1906 with solid timber construction and original wooden floors
- Leasehold plot of 3,170 sqm with orchard, berry bushes, and meadow garden
- Traditional Swedish sauna outbuilding
- Two air-source heat pumps for year-round climate comfort
- Fully equipped kitchen with wooden cabinet fronts and natural cross-lighting
- Balcony off the upper hallway with garden views
- Basement with hobby room, pantry, storage, and disused wood-pellet boiler
- Small secondary cottage on plot — renovation project with guest cabin potential
- Woodshed and storage shed included
- Some furnishings included in the sale
- 20km from Askersund and Lake Vättern
- 70km from Örebro with direct rail links to Stockholm
- No restrictions on foreign property ownership in Sweden
- Strong short-term rental demand for sauna-equipped rural properties
If you've been thinking about a second home in Scandinavia — somewhere that actually delivers on the promise of slow living, forest walks, and long summer evenings — this is a rare entry point at a price that leaves room for your own vision. Get in touch with the team at Homestra to arrange a viewing or to request the full property documentation. The blackbird, presumably, will still be there when you arrive.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 105m²
- Price per m²
- €412
- Garden size
- 3170m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Country home
- Energy label
Unknown
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