Lewiston, Scotland • Scotland
Lewiston is a small village in the Highland region of Scotland, in the IV63 postcode area, sitting by Drumnadrochit on the A82 along the western shore of Loch Ness, a short drive south of Inverness. KrewBase houses crews working across the Highlands in whole serviced properties here, with bills, Wi-Fi and parking all in and one monthly invoice going to your office.
This corner of the Great Glen is village housing rather than town stock: stone and render cottages, bungalows and a scattering of newer detached homes along the lochside and up the glen. Space is the selling point — gardens, driveways and room for a couple of vans are far more common here than in Inverness itself, and the morning traffic simply doesn't exist. Rents also tend to stretch further here than in the city, which helps on longer programmes without putting the crew miles from their work.
We sort the suitable from the scenic. A loch view doesn't keep a crew warm in January, so we check heating systems, hot water capacity for full occupancy, broadband speed and parking properly before anything reaches your shortlist. The pretty-but-impractical places stay off the list. We also look at mobile signal and parking turnaround, the two things crews mention most after a week in the Highlands.
Crews base themselves around Loch Ness for work spread across the Highlands: road and utilities maintenance along the A82 corridor, forestry and rural infrastructure, energy and grid projects in the wider region, and the ongoing cycle of housing and public-building repairs that every scattered community needs. Tourism brings summer work too, but the trades demand runs all year regardless of the visitor season.
The village is as much a base for Inverness-side work as for local sites — the city is close enough that a Drumnadrochit-area house beats a city flat for crews with vans, tools and gear that need somewhere sensible to park overnight. That's the trade-off we manage: village calm for the crew, city access for the job, one house doing both.
The A82 is the spine of everything here: Inverness is roughly 15 miles north, Fort Augustus sits at the south end of the loch, and the road links through towards Fort William and the west coast. Drumnadrochit village gives you the day-to-day shops, and Inverness handles everything else a working crew could need. Winter driving on the loch road is straightforward by Highland standards, though we still allow extra time at that end of the year.
If your sites are scattered, send us the list and we shortlist by measured drive time from each one — a loch-side village can look close on the map and drive very differently once you account for the road, so we plan from reality rather than from straight-line distance. The same applies to suppliers and deliveries — everything is planned against the road, not the ruler.
Your crew gets the whole house with council tax, gas or heating fuel, electric, water and broadband in KrewBase's name. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, parking is checked against the actual vehicles, and for crews of five or more we look for two bathrooms as standard, so the morning routine doesn't become a queue. Fuel type varies property to property up here, so we confirm the heating setup before committing anyone.
Weekly cleaning and linen are included, any maintenance is our call to make rather than the crew's, and the company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay length — a short small job is handled with the same care as a long big one. Extensions are handled the same way — one call, and we do the negotiation with the owner.
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.
Typically within a couple of hours of receiving the site locations, headcount and dates. The village pool is small, so we usually also look at Drumnadrochit and other spots along the A82 to give your crew a genuine choice at sensible drive times rather than a single option.
Yes on both. We check parking against the vans or pickups the crew actually drives, and broadband is speed-tested before check-in — rural Highland speeds vary street to street, so we test the specific property, not the postcode's reputation. Any mid-stay fault is ours to chase.
Lewiston, Drumnadrochit and the surrounding Loch Ness-side villages, with Inverness-side placements considered when the site list points that way. Give us the actual site addresses and we'll put the crew where the daily drive makes sense, even if that means steering you away from the village itself.
That's the standard arrangement. Rent, council tax, utilities, Wi-Fi, the weekly clean and linen, and any maintenance all sit on one monthly invoice, paid by card. One payment, one contact for your accounts team, and no bundle of receipts to reconcile at the end of the month.
No minimums at all. A small two-person job books the same way as a long-running large crew, and if the job overruns, extending the stay is usually straightforward as long as the property isn't committed behind you — we flag availability honestly when you book.
We do. The crew reports a problem to us, we arrange the tradesperson and absorb the cost. Nobody on site fronts money or spends a rest day phoning around Highland suppliers — it's all covered under the monthly invoice, which keeps things simple when the nearest big town is a drive away.
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If Lewiston is short on the right house for your crew, Inverness is the obvious back-up, roughly 14 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Inverness page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Lewiston? 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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