Sturehov Manor

In the Middle Ages, a small hamlet called Averhulta lay here, owned at one time by the head of the royal council, Bo Jonsson, and later by the Sture family.

Johan Oxenstierna's widow, Margareta Brahe, sold the estate to military commander Carl Gustaf Wrangel.

Subsequently it belonged to several other families from the Swedish nobility, until it was bought in 1778 by Johan Liljencrantz, who held a position similar to that of a finance minister in the government of Gustav III.

The façade facing the garden side is straight, but with the central part pronounced by a shallow avant-corps surmounted by a low attic crowned by urns.

In the centre of the floor is an octagonal dining room designed in a rather strict Neoclassical style: green and grey faux marble wall paintings with golden festoon-like decoration.

[3] In total, seven main rooms occupy the first floor, all richly embellished in a style ranging from late Rococo to Neoclassicism.

Sturehov as depicted on a map dated 1689
The front courtyard
Interior on the first, main floor