Broad Clyst, South West • England
A few miles north-east of Exeter in Devon, in the South West of England, Broad Clyst is a large village in the EX postcode area, sitting just off the A30 with the M5 at junction 29 close by. Exeter airport and the M5's junction 30 are minutes away, and Honiton lies to the east on the A30. KrewBase arranges whole serviced houses for crews working around the Clyst Valley, bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested, one monthly invoice.
Broad Clyst itself is a proper village — stone and render houses, a few terraces around the old core, and modern estates filling the gaps towards the A30. For crews the newer estate houses are usually the best fit: drives for vans, decent-sized kitchens, and none of the listed-building quirks that make old cottages charming but impractical. Every property we offer has been physically checked for parking, heating and hot water that survives a full crew's morning routine.
The Clyst Valley villages — Pinhoe, Sowton, Whimple, Talaton — all sit within ten minutes, and stock across the valley is decent. Where your site sits west towards Exeter we may look towards Pinhoe and the city's edge; east towards Honiton, the villages win. We will always show you the real drive, both ways, at shift time. Nothing we offer is sight unseen — every house is walked before it is shortlisted.
This corner of East Devon draws a practical mix of work: construction and housing development across the growing villages and Exeter's eastern fringe, logistics around the M5 junctions and the airport, manufacturing and food-chain work along the A30 corridor, plus the usual roofing, insulation and maintenance work on the area's older housing. Crews covering jobs across Devon often base here because the M5 and A30 put most of the county within reach.
We talk about jobs generically by design — your contract details stay yours — but shift patterns and headcount genuinely shape what we shortlist, so share them when you enquire. Holiday-season pressure can squeeze the market around Exeter and the airport, so early notice always pays — though honestly, we handle short-fuse requests for travelling crews more often than you might expect.
Few villages are this well connected: the A30 runs past the village towards Honiton and the A303, the M5 at junction 29 is a few minutes west, and junction 30 with the A376 topside link is barely further. Exeter city centre is around fifteen minutes, Exeter airport practically next door, and Honiton around fifteen minutes east. Trains run from nearby stations into Exeter St Davids for crews splitting travel.
Where the site lies off the corridor, we shortlist by measured drive time at shift-change hours rather than map distance, so the commute quoted is the commute driven. Village lanes, school runs and the airport traffic all shape the real journey time, so the only figures we ever quote are measured twice, at shift hour, door to gate, every time.
The crew gets the whole property — bills in our name, broadband speed-tested before check-in, parking verified against your vehicles, and a second bathroom as standard for crews of five or more. Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are included, and maintenance is ours to deal with, whatever the hour your crew clocks off. The standard stays the same whether the booking runs two weeks or the best part of a year.
Your company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. Two people for a fortnight is as welcome as twenty for six months — tell us what the job needs and we will match it. Nobody is counting heads at the door or charging per person. It is one house, one invoice, full stop.
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.
Broad Clyst and the Clyst Valley villages — Pinhoe, Sowton, Whimple, Talaton and the outskirts of east Exeter. Depending on your site, the best house may sit a few minutes east or west, and we will always show you the drive-time trade-off before you decide.
Send crew size, shift pattern and site postcode and we will normally return a shortlist within two working hours. The valley has good stock for a rural area, and same-week check-ins are often possible — we will flag early if your dates are tight.
Yes, checked before we offer anything. Most of the workable stock here is modern estate housing with drives, and we verify the space against your actual vehicles — including trailers if you run one — so there are no surprises on arrival night.
Everything is in our name: gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband, speed-tested before check-in. The crew pays nothing at the property and your company gets one monthly invoice covering the lot. Trailers, twin vans and the occasional mini-digger all get planned for in advance.
In most cases, yes. Give us as much notice as you can and we will extend the current house or line up the nearest suitable alternative so your crew is not decanting kit mid-job. Extensions simply join the same monthly invoice.
A whole house gives your crew a kitchen, laundry, parking at the door and room to keep a normal routine on longer jobs — usually at a better per-person cost than hotel rooms, and without breakfast-slot politics or curfews. Send us the headcount and dates and we will price it against what you are paying now.
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If Broad Clyst is short on the right house for your crew, Exeter is the obvious back-up, roughly 7 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Exeter page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Broad Clyst? 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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