3-Bed Historic House on Private Hill in Färgelanda – Swedish Country Second Home



Höjden 1, Färgelanda kommun, Sweden, Färgelanda (Sweden)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 98m² Floor area
€78,300
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
98m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Picture this: you're sitting at a 1950s kitchen table, coffee in hand, looking out through original single-pane glass at a hillside property that has belonged to one family since 1901. The birch trees outside are so close their branches brush the windowsill. There isn't a neighbor in sight. This is Höjden 1 — a three-bedroom house sitting on over 5,200 square meters of private land right in the heart of Färgelanda, western Sweden, and it's one of those rare properties you genuinely don't come across twice.
The address says the center of town. The reality feels more like a world apart. The hill itself — höjden literally means "the height" in Swedish — lifts the house just enough above the surrounding streets that the dense mature trees form a complete green curtain around it. You can walk to the ICA supermarket on Storgatan in under ten minutes, but you'd never know a town was there. That combination, genuine seclusion without genuine isolation, is almost impossible to engineer and nearly impossible to find.
Built in 1901 and held within the same family for 125 years, the house is the kind of place that accumulates layers. The original late-Victorian timber frame gives the structure its bones. Then in the 1950s someone added a kitchen extension — and they had taste. The retro cabinetry is the real thing, not a modern reproduction: rounded corners, pastel tones, the kind of craftsmanship that design-conscious buyers now spend fortunes trying to recreate. The windows throughout carry the optimistic clean lines of the 1960s, while original wooden doors and period joinery anchor everything back to the Edwardian core. The result is not confused — it's a genuine archive of Swedish domestic design across a century, and it reads as deeply personal rather than assembled.
The 98 square meters across five rooms flows better than the footprint suggests. Three bedrooms give the house real flexibility — a master for the owners, a second for guests or family, a third that works as a study or children's room depending on the season. The living areas catch the light in the mornings, and in summer, when the Swedish sun barely dips below the horizon until close to midnight, the rooms hold a warmth that makes evenings feel almost ceremonial. A fireplace anchors the main living room — not decorative, actually used, which matters when autumn arrives and the birches go gold around the hillside in late September.
The property is classified as a winterized holiday home, meaning full insulation, year-round habitability, and no seasonal shutdown required. This matters enormously for buyers thinking about flexibility — you're not locked into summer visits. Västra Götaland winters are cold but manageable, and there's something specifically Swedish about a snow-covered hill, the smell of woodsmoke, and the silence that comes with a landscape under frost.
The lot itself — 5,270 square meters — deserves its own paragraph. Mature trees throughout, open lawns that slope gently, patches that could become kitchen gardens, and space enough that two families could spread out on a summer weekend without feeling crowded. The elevated position gives views across the surrounding countryside, the kind of wide, quiet Swedish pastoral that doesn't need dramatic mountains or coastline to stop you in your tracks. Just fields, forest, and sky.
Färgelanda sits in Dalsland, a county that Swedes themselves treat as something of a well-kept secret. The Dalsland Canal system — 250 kilometers of connected lakes and waterways — runs through the region, and kayaking from Köpmannebro or renting a houseboat for a week along the canal is the kind of low-key Scandinavian adventure that fills summers here. Lake Vänern, one of the largest lakes in Europe, is less than forty minutes' drive west. The forests around the town are laced with trails for hiking and mountain biking in summer, cross-country skiing routes when snow arrives. Gothenburg — Sweden's second city, home to the fish market at Feskekörka, the Liseberg amusement park, and a genuinely excellent restaurant scene anchored by places like Vrå and Bhoga — is roughly ninety minutes by car. Gothenburg Landvetter Airport makes this property accessible for international buyers flying in from across Europe.
The local town of Färgelanda itself offers what you actually need day to day: grocery shops, a pharmacy, a medical center, schools, and the kind of cafes that serve proper kanelbullar on Friday afternoons. The region celebrates Midsommar with genuine commitment — maypoles, folk music, pickled herring, and strawberries — and the collective ritual of it, out in the open somewhere between town and forest, is one of those experiences that makes you understand why people buy property in Sweden rather than just visiting.
The sale includes much of the original furniture, which preserves the character of the interior in a way no staging exercise could replicate. The house has not been permanently lived in for some years, so there is honest renovation work to be done — buyers should approach this as a project with a clear structural foundation and exceptional bones, not a turnkey holiday home. The upside is significant: properties in this condition in this location represent real value in the Swedish second home market, which has remained broadly stable even as coastal prices in Bohuslän have climbed steeply. For international buyers, Sweden's property ownership laws are straightforward — there are no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing residential property, and the transaction process through a registered Swedish estate agency is transparent and legally clear.
Key features at a glance:
- 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom across 98 square meters of living space
- Built in 1901 with 1950s kitchen extension and 1960s windows — three distinct design eras in one property
- Winterized holiday home classification — suitable for year-round occupation
- 5,270 square meter private lot with mature trees and open lawns
- Elevated hilltop position with complete visual privacy despite central Färgelanda location
- Original furniture and period fittings included in the sale
- Wood-burning fireplace in main living area
- Retro 1950s kitchen — authentic period cabinetry and fittings
- Walking distance to town amenities, schools, and shops
- Access to Dalsland Canal waterways, Lake Vänern, and regional hiking trails
- 90 minutes from Gothenburg and Gothenburg Landvetter Airport
- No restrictions on international buyers purchasing Swedish property
- Sold as-is with strong renovation potential and immediate summer access
- 125 years of single-family ownership — rare provenance for a second home
This is not a property for someone who wants everything done for them. It's a property for someone who wants something that will never look like anyone else's house. If you're searching for a Swedish vacation home with genuine history, true privacy, and the kind of spatial freedom that a 5,000-square-meter hilltop lot provides — this is the one to see first.
Reach out through Homestra to arrange a private viewing of this exceptional Färgelanda second home. Properties with this combination of location, land, and character don't reappear often on the Swedish market.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 98m²
- Price per m²
- €799
- Garden size
- 5270m²
- 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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