Hempnall, East of England • England
Hempnall is a village in Norfolk in the East of England, England, in the NR postcode area, sitting on the A140 a dozen miles south of Norwich. It's the sort of place crews pass through on the way to sites across south Norfolk — and the sort of place we find whole houses for them. KrewBase provides serviced accommodation around Hempnall with bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested, parking checked, and everything folded into one monthly invoice.
Hempnall's own stock is village-sized — period cottages, a handful of newer homes — so crew houses usually come from Hempnall and the surrounding villages like Morning Thorpe, Shelton and Long Stratton just up the road. The newer-build semis and detached houses scattered through these villages are the ones we want: driveways, garages, four bedrooms, and neighbours far enough away that a 5am engine start is nobody's drama and nobody's phone call to the landlord.
Each property is inspected before it reaches your shortlist. Wi-Fi is tested in the bedrooms rather than waved at in the hallway, parking is measured against your vehicle list including trailers, and for five or more crew we only offer places with two bathrooms — a queue for the shower at half five is how a good job starts badly, and we don't shortlist for that.
The A140 and A146 corridors through south Norfolk carry steady contract work: highways and drainage maintenance, utility and grid jobs across the farmland, housing development around the larger villages and market towns, and logistics serving Norwich and the A47. Agricultural building and farm maintenance rounds out much of the year for trades out here, and the market towns add their share of healthcare and public-sector facilities work.
We keep things general on purpose — no invented clients, no claimed sites. Whoever the contract is with, we shortlist by drive time from the site and by what the crew actually needs in the house, not by what's nearest an estate agent's window or what's left over at the end of the lettings season. Seasonal work is normal here, and the base should follow the contract as it moves.
The A140 runs straight from Hempnall to Norwich in around 25 minutes, with Long Stratton five minutes north and the A47 junction not much further on. Southbound, the same road carries you towards Diss and on to the A14 at Stowmarket, and the A146 reaches Lowestoft via the Broads villages if the work runs that way. It's rural driving — tractors, dawdlers and the odd combine harvester — so we plan commutes around real journey times at shift-change hours, not the optimistic numbers a map app shows at midnight.
For any site, we measure drive time from the site entrance at the hour your crew starts, then shortlist accordingly. If the contract moves from the Norwich fringe to the Diss side, we re-baseline the search rather than letting a two-hour commute creep in by default. The base follows the contract; your crew shouldn't be eating extra miles out of habit, and we re-run the numbers the day the site moves.
The whole property is yours — kitchen table, garden, drive, every bedroom — for as long as the job runs. Bills sit in our name, broadband is tested before check-in, and parking is checked against the vehicles your crew brings. Crews of five or more get two bathrooms as standard, and a weekly clean with fresh linen keeps the place respectable through muddy contracts, with maintenance going to our 24/7 line and not your site manager.
One monthly invoice covers everything, payment by card for account customers, no booking fees, no minimum crew or stay. If the job runs long, extensions are usually possible with notice — and if it moves site, we re-shortlist around the new location so the accommodation follows the work instead of fighting it. The monthly figure is quoted up front and invoiced as quoted — no drip of extras.
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 during the working day from getting your site location, headcount and dates. South Norfolk supply is thinner than a city, so we send a short, honest list of inspected properties rather than pages of maybes. If nothing within a sensible drive works, we'll say so and suggest the nearest place that does.
Yes — Hempnall itself plus Morning Thorpe, Shelton, Woodton and up towards Long Stratton and the A140 corridor. We shortlist by drive time from your site, so if the job sits towards Norwich or Diss we work from that end instead, and if it moves mid-contract we re-base the search rather than leaving your crew crossing the county out of habit.
We check every property against your vehicle list before offering it, trailers included. Village houses here often have drives, garages or generous forecourts, which is exactly why we like them — three or four vans off the road, kit locked away overnight, and no 7am reshuffle because someone's blocked in on a single-width lane.
All in. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband in our name, Wi-Fi speed-tested in the bedrooms before check-in, and a weekly clean with fresh linen throughout the stay. Maintenance is our line, 24/7 — your crew just does the job, and never spends an evening on hold to an energy supplier about an account they didn't open.
Yes. Tell us the shift pattern and we'll pick properties that suit — bedrooms away from the street, cleans scheduled around day sleepers rather than a fixed Thursday morning, and quiet-house rules agreed with the crew at handover. Night work is normal to us; your crew sleeps through the day without the cleaner, the gardener or the meter reader making it impossible.
Send the site, crew size and dates and we'll quote one monthly figure per property covering rent, bills, cleaning and linen. No booking fees, no minimum stay, and account customers get payment by card. The quote is the invoice — there is no drip of extras — and if the job overruns we extend at the same rate terms wherever availability allows.
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Hempnall sits about 9 miles from Norwich. Plenty of crews working here base themselves in the city and drive out, especially on longer jobs or when the local supply is thin. Our contractor accommodation Norwich page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Hempnall? 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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