Allendale, North East • England
Allendale, a small market town in the North Pennines of Northumberland, sits in England's North East under the NE postcode, on the B6295 roughly a dozen miles south of Hexham. It's a quiet, stone-built place — good walking country, but also a practical base for crews. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses and cottages here with bills, Wi-Fi and heating in our name, and your company settles everything on one monthly invoice.
Allendale's streets are classic North Pennines — stone-built terraces in the town itself, weavers' cottages and larger farmhouses out in the Allen valleys. Most come with parking on the lane or a small yard, which suits vans, and because this is a working rural town rather than a tourist honeypot, properties tend to be let on sensible terms. What we filter for is warmth, water and bandwidth: heating that can take a Pennine winter, a hot-water system that survives six dirty boilersuits, and broadband or signal good enough for site photos and reports. Anything damp, listed-and-fussy, or too precious for work boots doesn't make our list.
Work in this part of the North East is mostly practical and outdoors — rural housing maintenance, estate and farm building work, fencing, small-scale energy and grid jobs, and the steady stream of work that comes with keeping old stone infrastructure standing. Crews working across the Hexhamshire and Weardale fringes often base here. It's also a sensible base for contractors hopping between sites across southern Northumberland and County Durham, since the town sits roughly between the two.
The B6295 links Allendale to Hexham, about twelve miles north, where you'll find the A69 for Newcastle and Carlisle and the A68 heading north. The A686 crosses the Pennines between Penrith and Haydon Bridge for crews coming from Cumbria. Newcastle is roughly forty minutes to an hour depending on the site. Public transport is thin — this is driving country — so we treat drive time as the only honest measure and shortlist from your site's actual address, not a radius on a map.
You rent the whole property, and we put the bills — gas or oil, electricity, council tax, Wi-Fi — in our name. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, parking is confirmed against your vehicles, and for crews of five or more we look for two bathrooms. The rent, bills, weekly clean and linen arrive on one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, no minimum crew or stay, and any maintenance is our problem to fix, not your gang's.
Send us the requirement — town, dates, headcount, vehicles and any shift pattern we should know about. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold, not a search we have just started. You pick, we confirm, the crew moves in, and we stay on it for the length of the job. One monthly invoice, card payment for limited companies, no booking fees.
Yes — send the site address, crew size and dates, and we aim to return a shortlist within two hours. Stock around Allendale is limited and local, so we ring landlords directly and confirm availability, heating and parking before anything reaches your inbox.
Almost always. Most properties here have a lane-side spot, yard or drive that takes work vehicles without fuss — one of the benefits of a rural base. We still check the space against your actual vans and confirm it before booking, rather than taking the listing's word for it.
That's exactly how it works. Rent, all bills, Wi-Fi, weekly cleaning and linen are rolled into one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees. Whether the job runs two weeks or six months, your accounts team processes a single document.
Alongside Allendale itself we regularly place crews in Hexham, Haydon Bridge, Catton, Allenheads and across towards Weardale and the Derwent valley. If your sites are spread out, we'll pick a base by combined drive time rather than forcing everything around one town.
Yes, and winter bookings are common here. We only shortlist properties whose heating realistically copes with a Pennine winter — oil, gas or solid fuel — with adequate hot water and insulation. If a property would leave your crew in coats indoors, it doesn't make the list.
KrewBase does. Heating failure, blocked drain, dodgy boiler — your crew calls us and we arrange the fix with local trades. It never falls to your site manager or the landlord's cousin, and it never appears on your invoice as an extra.
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If Allendale is short on the right house for your crew, Newcastle is the obvious back-up, roughly 26 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Newcastle page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Allendale? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
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