Frome, South West • England
Tucked under the eastern Mendips, Frome is a Somerset market town in the South West of England, on the A361 in the BA postcode area with Bath thirteen miles to the north. KrewBase houses work crews in whole serviced properties here — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in and parking matched to your actual vehicles. One monthly invoice covers it all, paid by card, with no booking fees.
Frome's housing climbs the hill: period stone cottages and Georgian fronts around the centre, long runs of Victorian terraces in places like Keyford, and post-war semis and newer estates on the flatter land out towards the bypass. The old streets are handsome but parking is tight, so for crews we usually look to the edges — estates with driveways, garages and quick access to the A361.
Every shortlist is built around the crew, not the postcode. We want two bathrooms for five or more bodies, a proper kitchen that takes batch cooking, somewhere to dry wet gear after a Mendip downpour, and off-street parking sized against your van list — checked and photographed before the shortlist reaches you, so what you see is what the crew gets.
Frome sits within commuting reach of Bath, Trowbridge, Warminster and Shepton Mallet, so crews based here can cover jobs across Somerset and the western Wiltshire border without moving digs. The drivers are familiar ones: housing development around the town, manufacturing and food-production employers on the industrial edges, NHS and healthcare contracts, and trades supporting the area's busy independent high street.
There's also a steady stream of construction and infrastructure work along the A361 and A36 corridors, plus energy and grid jobs scattered across the Mendips. Crews working for multiple clients often base here for a season, treating Frome as the fixed point while the sites change around them. The town's size helps too: supermarkets, takeaways and a weekly market keep a crew fed and supplied without a car trip into Bath.
The A361 is the town's main artery, running north-west to Shepton Mallet and the M5, and south-east towards Trowbridge. Bath is about thirteen miles north, Warminster ten miles east, and the M4 past Bath is roughly fifteen. Frome's own station sits on the branch line from Westbury, with connections through to Bath, Bristol and the London lines. For supplies, the town itself covers most needs, with a big supermarket on the bypass.
If your site sits outside the town, tell us where and we'll shortlist by real drive time at shift-change hours — a house that looks close on the map can be slow work in rush traffic. We check the actual roads, at the actual times, and we'll flag any property where the commute is likely to wear the crew down over a long contract.
Your crew gets the whole house or flat — no sharing with strangers, no hotel corridors. All bills are in our name, broadband is tested before anyone arrives, and parking is verified against the vehicles on your booking. Larger houses come with two bathrooms, and weekly cleaning with fresh linen keeps the place workable on long jobs. The kitchen arrives equipped for a full crew.
One monthly invoice covers everything, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum stay. Maintenance is our problem: your crew reports an issue, we sort it, and your supervisors never see a boiler form or chase a letting agent — they get one supplier, one invoice, and their evenings back. The same arrangement scales up or down as the crew changes.
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.
Honestly, not in the old town — the period streets are too tight for a van and a couple of cars. We shortlist houses on the estates and roads out towards the bypass, where driveways and garages are standard. Every property is checked against your actual vehicle list before it reaches you, so there are no surprises on day one.
For a standard booking, you'll have a shortlist within two working hours of sending the site address, headcount and dates. Viewings are usually possible the same or next day, and a crew can be checked in within a few days once paperwork is complete. Last-minute mobilisations are common — just call us.
A hotel charges per room per night, with nowhere to cook and vans parked wherever there's space. A KrewBase house gives the whole crew one address, a proper kitchen, a sitting room, laundry and off-street parking — usually for less than hotel rooms once the job runs beyond a week or two.
As well as Frome itself we regularly shortlist in Shepton Mallet, Street, Glastonbury, Trowbridge, Warminster, Midsomer Norton and Radstock, depending on where your site sits. The A361, A36 and A39 link them all, so we pick whichever town genuinely minimises your crew's drive time.
Yes — tell us the shift pattern when you enquire and we'll shortlist accordingly. That means bedrooms away from the street, good blackout options, enough bathrooms to stagger wash times, and a kitchen that works at odd hours. Day-sleepers and night-workers have used our houses without issue.
Four things: the site address or nearest landmark, how many crew, the start date and rough duration, and the vehicles coming. With that we can shortlist within two working hours and give firm pricing. If dates are flexible, say so — it sometimes opens up better-value properties.
Contractor accommodation in Tiverton Contractor accommodation in Langport Contractor accommodation in Naunton Contractor accommodation in Charminster Contractor accommodation in Dorchester Contractor accommodation in Camelford
If Frome is short on the right house for your crew, Bristol is the obvious back-up, roughly 19 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Bristol page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
Contractor accommodation Construction workers accommodation Workforce accommodation How it works Sectors we cover Available properties All locations FAQs
Need beds in Frome? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
Request a quote