Ilminster, South West • England
Just off the A303 between Ilchester and Honiton, in the TA postcode area, Ilminster is a market town in south Somerset in the lee of the Blackdown Hills. Its position on the trunk road to the South West makes it a natural bunkhouse for crews up and down the corridor. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses and flats around Ilminster with bills, Wi-Fi and parking in, on one monthly invoice to your company.
Ilminster is a handsome old wool town — Hamstone fronts along the centre and the Minster — but the crew-suitable stock is the usual mix of Victorian terraces, 1930s semis and post-war estates on the edges, with newer detached houses on the roads out towards Horton Cross and the A303. We lean towards the semis and estate houses: driveways for vans, gardens, sensible layouts. Terraces near the centre work when the site is walkable, but parking is checked every time, because a crew without parking in a market town spends its first week annoyed.
The A303 is the reason. Crews working the trunk road itself — highways, drainage, utilities, telecoms — base here for easy reach in both directions, while the surrounding district brings housing development, agricultural and food-sector contracts, and the constant maintenance of older Somerset buildings. Yeovil to the west and Chard to the south add healthcare, manufacturing and logistics work. It's the kind of location where one house can serve a crew whose site moves ten miles either way week to week — tell us the pattern and we'll place it properly.
Ilminster sits a mile or so off the A303, with Ilchester and the A37 to the west, and Honiton and the Devon border to the south-east. Yeovil is around fifteen minutes, Taunton roughly half an hour, and Exeter an hour or so down the road. Crewkerne and Chard are both close for more local sites. Because the town straddles the main artery into the South West, we shortlist by junction-to-junction drive time — rush hour on the A303 is its own beast and we account for it, not just a clear-road estimate.
The let is the whole property for your company, with every bill — gas, electric, water, council tax, broadband — held in KrewBase's name. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is matched to your vehicle list, and crews of five or more get two bathrooms as standard. A weekly clean and fresh linen are included, and maintenance is our job around the clock. One monthly invoice, paid by card goes to your accounts team, with no booking fees and no minimums — small crews and short stays are as welcome as long contracts.
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 working hours from a clear brief: site postcode, headcount, dates and shifts. We shortlist across Ilminster and the nearby villages — Horton, Ilton, Whitelackington and towards Chard — each option with photos, parking detail and drive time to your site.
One of the best bases on the route. The town sits just off the trunk road between Ilchester and Honiton, so crews can reach sites tens of miles apart without changing houses. When the site moves, tell us and we'll sanity-check the commute — sometimes the same house keeps working, sometimes a swap halfway through the contract saves an hour a day.
Yes — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are in our name from day one, tested and working before your crew arrives. Everything is inside one monthly invoice, paid by card. There's nothing to top up, nothing in the crew's name, and nothing for your accounts team to reconcile beyond the single line.
That's exactly what we do. A whole house gives the crew a kitchen, a lounge, off-road parking and the freedom of shift-hour comings and goings — and for anything past a few nights it's normally cheaper per head than hotel rooms along the A303. Short stays and small crews are priced and serviced exactly the same as long contracts.
It's ours to fix. The crew phones KrewBase, we dispatch a local trade, and urgent problems get same-day attention where possible. Your site manager never hears about a leaking tap, and if something serious knocks the house out of action we relocate the crew rather than leaving them in it.
Site location or postcode, crew size and rooming split, start and end dates, and the shift pattern. Same-day priced shortlist, free to request, no booking fee if you proceed. If the job's likely to move along the corridor, tell us that too and we'll factor it in.
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If Ilminster is short on the right house for your crew, Exeter is the obvious back-up, roughly 31 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Exeter page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Ilminster? 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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