Skrävsta gård, Farm building in Botkyrka, Sweden
Skrävsta gård is a manor house by Lake Aspen in Botkyrka socken, Botkyrka Municipality. The main building, erected in 1944 for publisher David Lindström, is a rendered stone house with a säteri roof inspired by 18th-century architecture. The estate also has two other dwellings, five stable buildings and three storehouses from different periods.
The present main building was erected in 1944 by publisher David Lindström, brother of Johan Lindström Saxon, beside Lake Aspen. The old Skrävsta farmstead, about 400 metres east, was abandoned in the early 20th century and its last buildings demolished in the 1940s. Written records of Skrävsta, spelled Skrafstæ, date from the 14th century, and in 1735 it was an outlying farm of Älvesta estate owned by councillor Swen Lagerberg.
The name Skrävsta appears in written records from the 14th century as Skrafstæ. Since 1968 the estate's outbuildings have housed the Botkyrka riding association, which runs a riding school and stables there, while the main building remains private.
The main building is privately owned and the park is not open to the public. The estate is reached via Gamla kyrkvägen, the old church road that now serves as the entrance to Skrävsta gård and the riding facility. The economic buildings have housed Botkyrka Riding Association's stables and riding school since 1968.
The main building is a plastered stone house with a säteritak roof, built in 1944 for publisher David Lindström, brother of Johan Lindström Saxon. The estate's farm buildings have housed the Botkyrka riding society's stables and riding school since 1968.
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