Black Torrington, South West • England
Out in the deep lanes of West Devon, Black Torrington is a small village in the EX postcode area, a few miles west of Hatherleigh on the road towards Holsworthy. Okehampton is about eleven miles to the south-east, with the A30 there linking east towards Exeter, and Dartmoor sits a short drive south. KrewBase houses crews working across this rural corner of England's South West in whole serviced properties — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested, parking matched to your vehicles, one monthly invoice.
The village itself has a small, mixed stock — traditional Devon cottages and farmhouses, a church, a pub and a modest number of post-war and newer houses, several with good plots and outbuildings. In practice, crews here are often placed in Black Torrington itself or in one of the nearby villages and small towns along the road between Hatherleigh and Holsworthy. We favour the houses with driveways and turning space, and we reject anything where vans would block the lane or a crew would be tripping over each other indoors — space matters when kit comes home at night.
West Devon's lanes carry steady flows of rural grid and utility crews, plus teams on road and local infrastructure work between the small towns. There's construction and housing development around Hatherleigh, Holsworthy and Okehampton, and crews working across Devon often pass through this corridor on their way to sites further west. The work can be scattered and the hours long, so being properly based — not shoehorned into a B&B — makes a real difference to how a crew holds up through a job.
This is driving country: the village links west to Holsworthy, about seven miles away, and east to Hatherleigh and the road towards Okehampton, where the A30 gives a fast run to Exeter, roughly twenty-five miles east. Dartmoor's southern edge is close, and the north coast around Bude is about fifteen miles north-west. Public transport is limited, so every house we shortlist is judged by measured drive time from your actual site — tell us where the job is and we'll place the crew sensibly.
Your company books the whole house, and we hold every bill in our name — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, parking is verified against the vehicles you're bringing, and we look for two bathrooms for crews of five or more. A weekly clean with fresh linen is included, all maintenance comes through us, and your office receives one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, and no minimum crew or stay — a small team on a short job is fine.
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.
Usually, yes. With the site postcode, headcount, vehicle list and start date we can typically return a shortlist of vetted houses within two working hours. Rural stock is limited, so we'd rather give you three well-checked options than a long list of maybes.
The village itself plus Hatherleigh, Holsworthy and the surrounding West Devon settlements, with Okehampton and the A30 corridor within range. If your site shifts along the road, we'll re-shortlist so the commute stays short. Most options sit within a fifteen-minute drive of the village.
Generally easier than in towns — many village houses here have driveways or yard space — but we still confirm parking against your actual vehicle list and check lane access before offering anything. If the kit list includes a trailer, tell us and we'll screen for it specifically.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband all stay in our name, so nobody's chasing utilities or topping up meters. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before your crew arrives, and everything is bundled into one monthly invoice to your company. Your office simply receives the one monthly invoice.
That's the standard arrangement. One monthly invoice covering rent, bills and cleaning, paid by card, with your PO or job number referenced if needed. Your crew pays nothing directly and no card details are taken. It is how most of our bookings run.
Extensions are common and usually simple — we agree the extra weeks at the same rate where possible and your crew stays put. Give us as much notice as you can; if the house genuinely can't extend, we'll arrange a like-for-like swap nearby so nobody's left hunting at short notice.
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Working in Black Torrington? You are about 29 miles from Exeter, so we often shortlist from both. Have a look at our contractor accommodation Exeter page too — whole houses, bills in, one invoice, whatever the size of the crew.
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