Long Man, South East • England
Long Man takes its name from the chalk hill figure above Wilmington, in the Cuckmere valley of East Sussex's BN postcode area — rural, quiet and a few minutes from the A27 between Lewes and Eastbourne. KrewBase houses crews in whole serviced properties here, with bills, Wi-Fi, parking and one monthly invoice all handled, and shortlists built by drive time from your site.
Long Man parish is the chalk country around Wilmington — farm cottages, period houses in the villages, and a modest amount of newer building near Polegate. Stock for crews is limited, so we shortlist across the neighbouring villages — Wilmington, Polegate, Alfriston, Jevington — wherever a whole house fits the crew and the commute works. Parking matters most here: rural lanes mean no assumed kerb space, only checked drives.
We filter hard on the practical points: two bathrooms for five or more, bedrooms that take real beds rather than bunks crammed in, heating that works, and a drive sized for the crew's vehicles. Cottages look charming in photographs; we check they actually work for tradespeople on early shifts before they make a shortlist. That filtering is the job — it is most of what you are paying for.
Work around here is spread across the A27 corridor and the South Downs: construction and housing development around Polegate and Eastbourne, highways and infrastructure maintenance on the coast road, utilities and grid work across the Downs, rail jobs along the East Coastway line, and seasonal work in the visitor economy that still needs proper beds. Crews working across East Sussex use this area as a quiet base.
Because jobs move — a highways contract can roll from one stretch of the A27 to the next — we don't lock crews to one address. Give us the site postcode each time and we'll re-shortlist around it, keeping the same house standard and the same one monthly invoice so your office isn't re-processing paperwork every time the job shifts.
The A27 is the main axis: Polegate is a couple of miles east with its junction for the A22 towards Uckfield, Lewes is about seven miles west, and Eastbourne roughly seven east. Berwick station, a short drive away, sits on the East Coastway line linking Brighton and Hastings. For rural sites on the Downs, lanes beat motorways, and we plan drive time accordingly.
Shortlists are built from the site postcode and shift pattern. A house that looks close on the map can sit behind slow cross-country lanes, so we check real drive time rather than straight-line distance. For night-shift crews we favour the quieter villages and off-road parking, because day sleep is hard enough without delivery vans outside. That planning is part of the service.
You get the whole property, with bills in our name — council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in and the heating is checked. A weekly clean with fresh linen keeps things civilised on longer stays, and anything that breaks is fixed by us: the crew reports it, we handle the landlord side. There's no middleman for your office to chase.
Everything arrives on one monthly invoice — rent, bills, cleaning — paid by card, no booking fees, no minimum crew or stay. Long jobs and short ones are priced the same way, and extending a stay is a conversation, not a re-booking. To price a house we need the site postcode, crew size, start date and how long you'll need it, and a shortlist comes back within two working hours.
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.
Four things: the site postcode, crew size, start date and expected duration. With those we can send a priced shortlist within two working hours. If the job is spread across sites, send the main one and tell us the pattern — we'll plan around the drive times that matter.
Long Man parish itself, Wilmington, Polegate, Alfriston, Jevington and the surrounding downland villages, with Lewes and Eastbourne within easy reach. Stock is limited in the villages, so we widen the shortlist across the area rather than force a poor fit — the standard is the same wherever we place the crew.
Yes, and we treat it as essential rather than nice-to-have. Rural lanes mean no assumed kerb space, so every property is checked for a drive sized to your actual vehicles. Houses in the villages and on the Polegate side typically have the best parking, and those head our lists.
Yes. Council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband are in our name and included in the rate, and Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in. There's no setting up accounts or chasing providers. Your office just receives one monthly invoice covering the whole arrangement.
Tell us as early as you can and we'll extend the stay, subject to availability — most extensions are simple. If the job moves along the A27 corridor, we can re-shortlist around the new site postcode instead, so the crew isn't stuck with a long cross-country commute for the remaining weeks.
For stays beyond a few nights, a house wins on cost and on function: kitchen, washing machine, proper beds, somewhere to brief and decompress. Per head it usually undercuts hotel rooms once meals and laundry are counted, and the crew stays together. For genuine one-nighters, we'd point you at a hotel and say so.
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If Long Man is short on the right house for your crew, Brighton is the obvious back-up, roughly 15 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Brighton page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Long Man? 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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