Cranleigh, South East • England
Known as the largest village in England, Cranleigh lies in the Surrey Hills in the South East of England, postcode area GU, about nine miles south-east of Guildford and ten north-west of Horsham on the A281. It has no railway of its own, which makes a serviced crew house the practical answer for working crews. KrewBase supplies whole houses and flats here with bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in and parking sized for your vehicles, all on one monthly invoice, paid by card.
Cranleigh grew along the A281, and its housing shows it: long stretches of Victorian and Edwardian terraces near the village centre, substantial semis and detached houses in the roads behind the High Street, and post-war estates towards the outskirts where parking is easy. Around the village, the Surrey lanes hide farm cottages and newer developments in places like Ewhurst and Alfold. For crews we favour the estates and the bigger semis — driveways, gardens, two bathrooms, and space to decompress after a shift rather than a pretty frontage.
Cranleigh sits between Guildford and Horsham, close to the Surrey–Sussex border, so crews based here reach jobs across both counties: housing development, construction, highways and infrastructure work, utility and grid contracts, logistics and light industrial work around the bigger towns, plus healthcare placements in the surrounding villages. KrewBase houses crews working across Surrey and West Sussex, with Cranleigh a handy base when the site is somewhere between the two county towns.
Cranleigh famously has no railway — the old line is now a cycle path — so life here is car-based, which suits crews anyway. The A281 runs north-west to Guildford and south-east to Horsham, the A29 crosses towards Billingshurst, and the A3 and M25 are reachable via Guildford. We shortlist by drive time from your site's postcode, and we'll tell you straight if a property puts the crew too far from the job. Gatwick is within reach for crews flying in, roughly half an hour by road.
Your crew takes the whole property. Rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband all sit in our name, so there are no bills for the crew to split or forget. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before anyone moves in, parking is verified against your vehicle list, and five or more in the house means two bathrooms as standard. A weekly clean with fresh linen keeps standards up, and maintenance calls come to us, not to your site manager.
Your company receives one monthly invoice paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. Send the site postcode, headcount, start date and how long you expect the job to run, and we'll return a shortlist of suitable whole properties within two working hours — each one with an honest drive time to site so your foreman can sanity-check the commute before anyone commits.
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.
No minimum crew size or minimum stay. A two-person job for a fortnight is priced on the same basis as a full crew for six months — you pay for the property, not per head, so small jobs are never pushed towards a hotel by default.
Both. Inside the village there are terraces near the centre and bigger semis behind the High Street; around it, the estates and the lanes towards Ewhurst and Alfold offer more parking and space. We shortlist by drive time to your site first, then by parking and bathrooms, and name the exact location of every property in the quote.
Within two working hours of receiving the site postcode, crew size, vehicle list, start date and expected duration. You'll get whole houses or flats with bills in our name, tested Wi-Fi, verified parking and honest commute times attached to each option, ready for your approval without a phone call.
Yes — that's one reason crews prefer a whole house to a hotel. With the property to themselves, night-shift workers sleep undisturbed through the day, blackout arrangements can be agreed, and there's no housekeeping knock at nine in the morning. Tell us the shift pattern and we'll factor it into the property choice.
That's the standard arrangement. One monthly invoice covers rent, council tax and every utility including broadband, paid by card. No booking fees, no deposits handled by the crew, no shoebox of receipts at the end of the job — just one line for your accounts team to pay.
Talk to us as soon as you know. Early finishes are handled against the host's terms, and extensions are usually straightforward because we agree them with the host before you run out of time. If the property genuinely can't extend, we'll line up a like-for-like alternative nearby so the crew isn't decanted across the county.
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If Cranleigh is short on the right house for your crew, Brighton is the obvious back-up, roughly 27 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Brighton page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Cranleigh? 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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