Braunton, South West • England
Braunton claims to be the largest village in England, sitting in North Devon in the South West, in the EX postcode area, a few miles west of Barnstaple on the A361 Atlantic coast road. The Taw estuary, Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows are on its doorstep, and Exeter is around an hour down the A361 and A377. KrewBase arranges whole serviced houses for crews working around North Devon, with bills in, Wi-Fi tested and one monthly invoice.
Braunton's housing runs from older stone and rendered cottages around the village core to post-war semis and tidy modern estates on the edges towards Saunton Road and around the village. For working crews the semis and small estates tend to win: straightforward parking, gardens for drying kit, and neighbours well used to the rhythms of surf-season and out-of-season trade work. Every property we shortlist gets a physical check for heating, hot water and a kitchen that can take a crew.
We also look along the coast road towards Saunton and Croyde and back towards Barnstaple, because North Devon stock is thin in places and the best crew house for your site is sometimes ten minutes out of the village rather than dead centre. We will always be straight about the drive. Rural stock rewards an early enquiry, so it pays to flag dates as soon as the job is confirmed.
Work around Braunton and the wider North Devon area is a familiar mix: construction and housing development around Barnstaple and the coastal villages, maintenance and refurbishment on holiday properties through the off-season, agriculture and food-chain work inland, and the usual round of roofing, insulation and local infrastructure jobs. The coast means a steady flow of building work keeping older properties weather-tight.
We never name sites or projects — that is your business — but we do ask about shift times and crew size, because a crew on 6am starts needs different accommodation to one working flexi-hours. Summer brings a rush of seasonal work and accommodation fills fast, while autumn and winter readily favour crews who can be flexible on village location.
Braunton sits on the A361, the main Atlantic coast road linking Barnstaple with Ilfracombe, and joins the A377 for Exeter. Barnstaple is roughly five miles east, Exeter around forty-five miles and an hour's drive, and the North Devon coast path and villages are all within twenty minutes. The nearest motorway end is the M5 at Junction 31, a run of about fifty minutes across the link roads.
Where your site sits off the beaten roads, we shortlist strictly by drive time at shift hours rather than straight-line distance, so your crew's morning run is realistic, not theoretical. For crews working the coast villages, nothing in North Devon is far, but the lanes are slow — we plan on the real minutes, not the optimistic ones. That honesty protects your schedule.
The crew takes the whole house — no shared hallways, no hotel curfews. Bills are in our name, broadband is speed-tested before check-in, parking is verified against your vehicles, and five or more people means a second bathroom as standard. Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are included, and maintenance comes to us, not to whoever happens to be on earlies.
Everything lands on one monthly invoice to your company paid by card. There are no booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay, so a short job for a small team books just as easily as a long deployment. Paperwork is one signature and one monthly invoice, whatever the crew size or season — simple as that, from day one.
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.
Braunton itself plus the surrounding North Devon ground: towards Saunton and Croyde, along the Taw estuary, and into Barnstaple. If the best-value crew house sits just outside the village, we will show you the commute trade-off and let you decide on facts.
Usually, yes. Send crew size, shift pattern and site postcode and we will aim to send a shortlist within two working hours. North Devon stock is thinner than a big city, so we will be honest about dates rather than promise what is not there.
Generally, yes — the estates and larger semis around the village usually offer driveways or off-street space. We check the parking against your actual vehicles before offering anything, so nobody arrives to find a Smart-car bay for a Transit. If the village is full, we say so and widen the search properly.
All in. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are in our name and the Wi-Fi is tested before check-in. You receive one monthly invoice covering the whole booking, with nothing metered back to your crew. Sea air is kind to vans; tight parking is not, so we plan for the second one.
Yes. There is no minimum crew size or minimum stay. A two-person team for a couple of weeks books as readily as a big crew for months — tell us the dates and headcount and we will match what is available.
The whole property is yours, so night-shift crews come and go without disturbing hotel guests or breaching any curfew. Tell us the shift pattern when you enquire and we will shortlist accordingly — quiet streets, decent blackout, and nobody's breakfast schedule to fit around.
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Need beds in Braunton? 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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