Fakenham, East of England • England
About twenty-five miles north-west of Norwich sits Fakenham, a proper Norfolk market town in the East of England, NR postcode, at the meeting of the A148 and A1065. It's surrounded by some of the flattest, busiest agricultural land in the country, and when contract work lands here accommodation is the first problem. KrewBase keeps crews in whole serviced houses around Fakenham — bills in, Wi-Fi sorted, parking checked — all billed to the company as one monthly invoice.
Fakenham's housing runs from older terraces and semis near the market place to post-war council stock and newer estates on the town's edges, with a scatter of bungalows in between. Crews do best on the estates: driveways for two or three vans, decent-sized kitchens, spare rooms for kit and work boots, and neighbours well used to early starts and generators. Some of the older semis near the centre also work well for smaller crews who want the shops, chippy and supermarket on foot after a long day.
We check every house ourselves before it reaches your shortlist — parking measured against your actual vehicles, two bathrooms for five-plus crews, heating that works through a Norfolk winter, hot water that survives sequential showers, and no letting-agent surprises when the gang arrives. If a property fails any of that on inspection, it's dropped, however good the online listing looked.
This part of Norfolk runs on agriculture and everything around it: food processing, packhouses, equipment maintenance and seasonal farm work through the year, alongside construction and housing development in the market towns. Further out, crews working across the wider East of England region take on energy, grid and infrastructure jobs that can base them here for months at a time, and the town's guest houses were never built for that kind of stay.
A whole house beats a string of guest-house rooms every time: the gang stays together at one address, cooks properly, dries kit indoors and keeps whatever hours the job demands. For contracts measured in weeks and months rather than nights, it's usually the only sensible option in this corner of the county. It also removes the weekly admin of booking rooms, which your office will quietly thank you for.
The A148 runs south-west towards Kings Lynn and north-east towards Cromer, while the A1065 heads south to Swaffham and on to the A11 at Thetford. Norwich is around forty minutes by road, Kings Lynn about half an hour, and the north Norfolk coast is close for coastal jobs — between the three, most sites in the region sit within a sensible commute without touching a motorway.
Give us the site postcode and we'll shortlist Fakenham houses by genuine morning drive time, lane by lane. If the work moves between sites — a week near Swaffham, a month up towards Holt — we can adjust the ranking or relocate the crew mid-contract, so the commute stays short even when the job doesn't stand still. Send us more than one site and we'll try to find a house that sits sensibly between them.
The crew takes the entire property for the job's duration — every bedroom, the kitchen, the living space, no other tenants and no shared corridors. All bills — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband — stay in our name. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is confirmed against the vehicles you list, and five or more people means two bathrooms as standard, which keeps the pre-shift queue down where it belongs.
A weekly clean and fresh linen come as standard, and repairs and maintenance are our problem — reported once and dealt with by our own trades. Your company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card with no booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay, so short bookings and rolling contracts are handled exactly the same way. The crew's only job is the job — everything domestic is already taken care of.
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.
Our target is a shortlist within two working hours of receiving the site location, crew size and dates. Fakenham is a small town with thin stock, so more notice is better — but we regularly house crews here at a few days' notice for agricultural, maintenance and construction jobs, and we'll always tell you honestly what's achievable.
Yes. We shortlist across Fakenham and the surrounding villages towards Holt, Swaffham and the coast, ranked by drive time to the site rather than an arbitrary radius. If a house three miles out of town beats one in Fakenham on the morning commute, that's the one we'll put at the top of your list and explain why.
We check every property's parking against the vehicles your crew arrives in. If that's two transits and a car, the driveway needs to fit two transits and a car — verified on the ground before you book, not assumed from a listing photo or the landlord's say-so.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are all in KrewBase's name. The crew never sees a bill, never tops up a meter and never argues about the heating, and your company gets one monthly invoice covering everything in the house — one supplier, one payment, no chasing.
One monthly invoice to your company paid by card, covering the property and all included services. There's no booking fee, no separate utility accounts and nothing for the crew to pay or claim back — it's built for straightforward accounts processing from the first week of the contract.
The crew reports it to us once — by message or phone — and we arrange a local tradesperson, usually the same or next day for anything urgent. Nobody on site waits in, nobody negotiates with a landlord, and the job doesn't lose a pair of hands for the morning. Maintenance is entirely our side of the deal.
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If Fakenham is short on the right house for your crew, Norwich is the obvious back-up, roughly 23 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Norwich page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Fakenham? 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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