Lybster, Scotland • Scotland
On the east Caithness coast, thirteen miles south of Wick, Lybster is a former fishing port turned quiet harbour village — KW-postcode Scotland, sitting directly on the A9 in the country's far north. Crews working the wind farms, grid and harbour jobs of Caithness can base themselves here within easy reach of Wick, Thurso and the north coast. KrewBase provides whole serviced houses around Lybster: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking for your vehicles, one monthly invoice.
Lybster stacks white-harled cottages and terraced rows down toward the harbour, built for fishing families — full of character, short on parking. Crews tend to land better in the post-war semis and detached houses up the brae and along the A9 toward Wick, where driveways take a pair of vans without a fight. Our filter never changes: off-street parking, two bathrooms for five-plus crew, heating that copes with a Caithness winter, and a kitchen built for a crew rather than a couple.
Because Lybster is small, we also shortlist in Dunbeath, Latheron and on the Wick side, so a crew is never stuck choosing between two unsuitable houses. Every property is inspected in person before we offer it: parking measured against your vehicles, Wi-Fi speed-tested at the router, and the landlord vetted, so the crew arrives to exactly what was promised — no day-one surprises.
Caithness runs on renewable energy these days, and the moors inland from Lybster carry their share of onshore wind along with the grid and substation work that comes with it. Add harbour maintenance, road and infrastructure contracts, building work in Wick and Thurso, and crews supporting the wider north-coast economy. The pattern is steady: rotating teams that need a proper house near site, often at short notice and sometimes through a hard winter, not a hotel an hour away.
Lybster sits directly on the A9, so the drive north to Wick is about thirteen miles, with Thurso a further ten or so beyond it; south, Helmsdale is around fifteen miles. Wick has the area's railhead and main services, while Inverness — the nearest city — is a couple of hours south on the A9. Where a site sits off the beaten track, send us the postcode and we shortlist by actual drive time, factoring the single-track sections that a map tends to ignore.
You get the whole property — no shared corridors, no other guests. Bills go in our name: council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is checked against the actual vehicles you'll bring, and five or more crew means two bathrooms as standard. A weekly clean and fresh linen are part of the deal, and maintenance comes to us, not the crew, with a 24-hour line for anything urgent.
Everything lands on one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. If the job overruns, extending is a phone call rather than a new contract, and the crew simply carries on. Tell us the site postcode and headcount, and we'll come back with a shortlist you can actually choose from — real houses, inspected, with the parking and bathrooms already checked.
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.
Give us the site postcode and headcount and we normally return a shortlist within two hours — houses we've inspected ourselves, not scraped listings. In a place as small as Lybster we usually include options from the neighbouring villages too, so there's a real choice rather than one take-it-or-leave-it option.
Yes. We shortlist across Dunbeath, Latheron, the Wick side and anywhere within sensible drive time of your site. The village name on the page is where we anchor, but the search follows the job — tell us where the crew actually needs to be each morning and we'll work outward from there.
Yes. We only offer properties where parking has been measured against the vehicles you tell us about — vans, trailers, the lot. Harbour-side cottages in Lybster often predate the car, let alone the van, so off-street space is one of our first filters, not an afterthought.
Council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband all sit in our name inside the one invoice, and Wi-Fi is speed-tested before anyone arrives. Heating matters this far north, so we check the system and the insulation, not just the advert — a Caithness winter is no place to discover a house runs cold.
Yes — one invoice, payment by card, covering rent, bills, the weekly clean and linen. Your office pays once at month end instead of chasing receipts from the crew. There are no booking fees, and nothing unexpected surfaces on the second invoice either.
Three things: the site postcode or location, how many crew, and roughly how long. If you know the vehicles, tell us those too so we can check parking properly. With that we shortlist inspected houses and come back with real options, usually within two hours.
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If Lybster is short on the right house for your crew, Inverness is the obvious back-up, roughly 67 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 Lybster? 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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