Downham, East of England • England
Downham Market keeps its old Fenland market-town feel, sitting in west Norfolk in the East of England's PE38 postcode area on the A10 between King's Lynn and Ely — King's Lynn about twelve miles north, Ely fourteen south. KrewBase houses contractor crews in whole serviced houses and flats in and around town — bills in our name, Wi-Fi ready before check-in, parking checked against your vehicles, and one monthly invoice for the company.
Downham Market's older streets are full of well-built terraces and semis, and the town has grown steadily with newer estates that suit crews well — driveways, four bedrooms, open-plan kitchens. Staying in town puts crews minutes from the A10 and walking distance from shops and the station, which matters at the end of a twelve-hour shift. We also shortlist in the surrounding villages when a job needs somewhere quieter.
Work across west Norfolk and the Fens keeps crews coming: new housing across the region, construction and infrastructure around the market towns, heavy energy and grid activity in the surrounding countryside, and logistics on the A10, the A47 and the roads toward King's Lynn. Health and care contracts in the local towns add longer-stay teams. These are month-after-month jobs, and the people doing them need a base, not a berth.
The A10 is the town's main artery — King's Lynn around twelve miles north, Ely fourteen south, and the A47 joining a few miles down for Wisbech and the east. Downham Market station has direct trains to Ely, Cambridge and Norwich, which suits crews rotating in from elsewhere. If your site's off the beaten roads, send the postcode: we shortlist on drive time, so nobody's doing an unnecessary hour each way at six in the morning.
Whole-property let, bills in our name, one monthly invoice. Council tax, energy, water and broadband are covered, the Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, parking is checked against your vans, and a second bathroom comes as standard on any house sleeping five or more. The cleaner comes weekly, the linen is fresh, and maintenance calls go to us — your crew never has to negotiate with a landlord.
card payment invoicing, no booking fees, no minimum crew size or stay. Give us the site and the dates and we'll have a shortlist ready inside two working hours — every option checked for parking, bathrooms and heating first, so the list you get is a list you can actually choose from, not a pile of maybes for your office to work through.
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.
Two hours from enquiry to shortlist, once we have the site postcode, crew size and dates. Check-in usually follows within a couple of days, because the bills and broadband are already in our name — there's no waiting on utility connections or a landlord's schedule before your crew can move in and start.
The town itself plus Denver, Wimbotsham, Stow Bardolph, Nordelph, Southery and the villages along the A10 and A1122. For jobs toward King's Lynn or Ely we base crews there instead — it's all driven by drive time from the site. Send the postcode and we'll tell you honestly where the crew should live.
Yes. Newer estate houses here typically come with drives for two vehicles or more, and village properties often have more. You give us the vehicle list — number, size, trailers — and we verify the parking fits before a property makes the shortlist, so there's no first-night shuffle of vans along a dark Fenland road.
All of them, in one price: council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband are in our name, and the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in. The crew never sees a utility bill and your office never reconciles one. The quoted figure is the invoiced figure — that simplicity is rather the point of the service.
Usually, yes — extensions are a normal part of the work. Tell us the revised end date and, if the property is free, the booking continues on identical terms with the same single monthly invoice. If the property is committed elsewhere, we source an equivalent house locally and manage the move so the crew's week isn't disrupted.
One invoice a month covering rent, bills and the weekly clean, paid by card. No booking fees, no deposits from the crew, and we handle all the utility companies directly. If your finance team needs PO numbers or cost codes on the invoice, they can be added at booking and will appear correctly every month thereafter.
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If Downham is short on the right house for your crew, Cambridge is the obvious back-up, roughly 17 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Cambridge page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Downham? 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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