Kungsgatan 7

The drawing room, which the listing says was added in 1890, still has its working white tiled stove, and through most of the ground floor the floors are the original boards, sanded and finished with linseed soap. The house is Guldsmeden 1, on Kungsgatan in Malmköping, a timber house of 1835 that the smith Brolin built and enlarged several times, by the listing's account.

It is a story and a half: 148 square meters, about 1,590 square feet, of which 21 sit under sloping ceilings, with a timber frame and board-and-batten walls, on a garden plot of 900 square meters with a small barn at the bottom.

The Södermanland Regiment began drilling on the heath at Malma in the 1770s under its commander, Gustaf Adolf von Siegroth, and in 1784 the king approved his application for a trading town with köping rights, with a town plan attached. The place took the name Malmköping, and von Siegroth's plan can still be read in its streets. The regiment stayed until 1921. Länsstyrelsen in Södermanland counts the town among Sweden's national-interest heritage environments, for its well-kept buildings of the 1800s and early 1900s among other things.

By the listing's account, the Englund sisters kept a café in the yard in the 1920s, Systrarna Englunds konditori, and one of them painted the door on the upper floor; in the photographs it is covered in flowers and scrolls around a painted urn. The entrance hall and the halls upstairs keep their original floorboards, painted in a check.

The brokerage describes a renovation of the whole house: new wiring, a ground-source heat pump with new water radiators, a new sheet-metal roof patinated green, new gutters and drainage, and a facade repaired with its sound heartwood kept. The kitchen has a black granite worktop and an unlacquered brass tap, the dining room one wall papered in a forest scene, and the upstairs bathroom a freestanding tub, brass fittings and underfloor heating. Two bedrooms are upstairs. Hosjön, with a swimming beach, is about a kilometer away.