Larne, Northern Ireland • Northern Ireland
Larne is a working port town on the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland, where the A8 meets the sea and ferries sail for Scotland, in the BT postcode area about twenty-five miles from Belfast. Crews on jobs across the east Antrim coast, the port itself or the corridor south often base here. KrewBase provides whole serviced houses with bills, Wi-Fi and parking included, invoiced monthly to your company.
Larne's housing is practical and varied: solid terraces and older semis near the town centre and the harbour, post-war estates across the town, and newer detached developments on the higher ground and out toward the Ballylumford side. Crews usually end up in the semis and newer estates — drives and garages built for vans, three-bed layouts that take a full crew, and quick access to the A8 for early starts, whether the job is in the town or twenty miles down the corridor.
Every property passes the same checks: parking measured against the actual vehicles, two bathrooms for crews of five or more, a kitchen that can handle a working crew's cooking, and broadband speed-tested before check-in. Given the shift work around the port and the industrial sites, we also favour streets where a crew coming home at odd hours won't be disturbing half the neighbours — the wrong street in a town like Larne makes night shifts everyone's problem, and we plan for that in advance.
Larne is a port and industrial town, so work here has a particular flavour: ferry port operations and the services around them, manufacturing and energy-sector jobs in the area, construction and maintenance contracts across the town and the coast, and logistics work moving goods through the harbour. Healthcare and public-service contracts keep their own steady demand for beds, and the coastal villages bring construction and trades work of their own through the building season.
The A8 and M2 corridor south toward Belfast carries plenty of crews too — some weeks the job is in Larne itself, some weeks it's Ballyclare, Carrickfergus or the city. Housing a crew centrally in Larne keeps all of those within a reasonable morning drive, and the town's shops, chippies and takeaways handle the evenings without anyone driving anywhere. Over a rolling contract with sites that move, that central position is worth more than any single feature of a house.
The A8 links Larne with the M2 at Sandyknowes, putting Belfast around twenty-five to thirty minutes away depending on traffic, and the A2 coast road runs south through Whitehead and Carrickfergus toward the city for jobs along the shore. North and west, the famous Antrim coast road — the A2 — runs past the harbour toward Glenarm, Carnlough and the Glens, where rural jobs can be a long way from anywhere and a well-placed base matters even more.
For crews working along the coast road or back toward Ballymena and the M2, we shortlist by drive time from the report-in point. Tell us where the site is and when shifts start, and we'll place the crew on the right side of Larne — or in Carrickfergus or Whitehead if the job sits that way — to keep the morning run short and predictable, whatever the weather's doing off the sea.
The crew takes the whole property — own front door, no shared digs. Gas, electric, council tax, water and broadband are in our name, Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, and parking is verified against the vehicles arriving. Five or more in the crew means two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with fresh linen is included as standard, so the house stays decent for the full run of the job.
Your company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, no deposits argued over, and no minimum crew size or stay — small jobs and long contracts book the same way. Send the site, headcount and dates, and we'll usually return a shortlist within two hours, with drive times worked out for each house against the report-in point. After check-in, everything domestic — bills, cleaning, repairs — lands with us, not your site team.
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.
Most shortlists come back within two hours during the working day. Send the site, crew size and dates, and we'll confirm which whole houses in Larne fit the job, with drive time, parking and bathroom details for each, so the booking can be confirmed the same afternoon.
Yes — the whole A2 and A8 corridor down the coast is one patch. If the site sits between towns, we'll place the crew wherever the drive is shortest, whether that's Larne itself or one of the coastal towns south, and we'll show you the numbers either way.
Yes — parking matched to the actual vehicles is a hard requirement. The newer estates have drives and garages that take vans comfortably, and we skip anything where parking would be a daily battle, because a crew that starts every morning hunting for a space starts the day wrong.
Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are all in our name and included, with Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in. A weekly clean and fresh linen are part of the let, so the house stays decent for the whole job and there's no final reckoning with utility companies at the end.
That's the standard: one invoice per month covering rent and all included bills, paid by card, with no booking fees. Your accounts team gets one predictable figure to code against the job and the crew pays nothing, claims nothing back and signs nothing.
Yes — shift work around the port and industrial sites is common, so we look for houses on quieter streets and away from early-morning traffic routes. Tell us the shift pattern at enquiry and we'll factor it in from the first shortlist rather than after the complaints arrive.
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If Larne is short on the right house for your crew, Belfast is the obvious back-up, roughly 18 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Belfast page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Larne? 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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