Irthlingborough, East Midlands • England
The A6 runs straight through Irthlingborough, a small Northamptonshire town between Rushden and Kettering in England's East Midlands — NN postcode, a few miles east of Wellingborough and the A45. KrewBase houses work crews here in whole serviced properties: rent, bills, Wi-Fi and parking sorted before arrival, then one monthly invoice for the company. For crews dotted around the Nene valley it's a quiet, inexpensive base that keeps the A45, A14 and both Rushden and Kettering within a short drive.
Irthlingborough's streets were largely built by the boot-and-shoe trade — solid red-brick terraces near the centre, 1930s semis behind them, and post-war estates around the edges, all a short walk from the River Nene. Small towns mean small stock, so we usually shortlist across Irthlingborough plus neighbouring Higham Ferrers, Rushden and the Wellingborough side, wherever the parking and drive time work best. The checks stay the same: real parking for the booked vehicles, two bathrooms for crews of five or more, and a kitchen table the whole gang can eat at.
This corner of Northamptonshire keeps a steady turnover of contract work rather than one headline project. Logistics traffic on the A45 and A14, light manufacturing along the valley, housing development spreading out of the larger towns, and healthcare and school maintenance across the county all bring crews through. We house teams working across the East Midlands on rail, energy and local infrastructure contracts too. Whatever the sector, the ask is familiar — a whole house near site that doesn't eat the job margin.
The A6 passes the town, Rushden is a couple of miles south, Kettering around seven miles north-east and Wellingborough about five west, with the A45 corridor and M1 within easy reach from any of them. For longer runs, the A14 crosses at Kettering and the A43 heads south from there. There's no station in town — the nearest rail is Wellingborough or Kettering on the Midland Main Line — so most crews arrive by road, which suits this base fine. We plan each shortlist around measured drive time from your site postcode.
You book the whole property, we hold all the domestic arrangements. Rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband sit in KrewBase's name, Wi-Fi is tested before the first night, and parking is confirmed against the vehicles on the booking. A crew of five-plus gets two bathrooms, a weekly clean and fresh linen keep the house straight, and repairs are our phone call, not yours. One monthly invoice covers everything paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum stay or crew size.
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.
Send the site postcode, headcount and dates and we'll return a checked shortlist within two working hours. Small towns have thinner stock than cities, so for tight dates we may also show strong options in neighbouring Rushden, Higham Ferrers or Wellingborough — all within a few minutes' drive of most local sites.
Irthlingborough itself plus the whole Nene valley fringe: Rushden, Higham Ferrers, Wellingborough, and towards Kettering and Burton Latimer. We shortlist by drive time from your site rather than fixed boundaries, so if the house that fits the crew sits one town over, that's the one we'll propose.
Yes. You give us the vehicle list — cars, vans, pickups — and we only propose houses where that parking genuinely exists, on a driveway or guaranteed off-street. Terraced streets near the centre can be tight, which is exactly why parking is a hard filter on our shortlists, not an afterthought.
Your company is the bill-to account. Each month you receive a single invoice covering rent, council tax, all utilities, broadband, cleaning and maintenance, payable paid by card. There are no booking fees, no deposits held against damage, and no surprise line items when the crew's needs change.
Included and tested. We have broadband put in our name where needed and check the speed before check-in, because a crew living away for weeks can't run off a phone hotspot. If a property's connection won't handle evening streaming and video calls, it doesn't make the shortlist.
Usually, yes. Extensions are agreed in writing and priced from the outset so there's no renegotiation panic when the programme slips — and programmes do slip. If the house genuinely can't run longer, we'll move the crew to an equivalent property nearby and handle the logistics.
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Need beds in Irthlingborough? 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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