Lydeard St Lawrence, South West • England
Up on the western slopes of the Quantock Hills, Lydeard St Lawrence is a TA-postcode Somerset village in South West England, a few miles from Wiveliscombe and reached along the B3227. It's deep farming country — which means crews working across west Somerset and the Taunton fringe often need a base well away from the bigger towns. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses around the village and nearby: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against your vans, one monthly invoice.
Villages around the Quantock fringe — Lydeard St Lawrence, Wiveliscombe, Milverton, Fitzhead — mix stone farmhouses, village cottages and a useful scatter of post-war semis and newer detached houses. For crews we favour the semis and newer stock: drives that take the van fleet, heating that works in January, and no listed-building complications about where tools can live. Farmhouse lets can suit longer, senior-led crews where a bit of space matters more than postcode. Every shortlist is walked and checked before it's offered — parking, heating, broadband, all of it.
Crews across this corner of Somerset work construction and housing development around the market towns, agricultural building and land-management contracts, forestry work on the Quantock fringes, grid and utility jobs along the routes toward Taunton and Exmoor, and healthcare placements covering the smaller towns. Some crews work a rolling pattern — weeks on a barn conversion, then a stretch on infrastructure nearer Taunton. A serviced house near Lydeard St Lawrence keeps them in one place whatever the rota does, with one invoice whatever the week looks like.
The B3227 links the village to Wiveliscombe and Bampton, and from there the roads run to Taunton — about twenty minutes — where the M5 at junctions 25 and 26 opens the whole South West and the Midlands. Exeter is reachable south via the A38, and the A358 carries crews toward Taunton daily. Lanes up around the village are fine for vans but slow, so we shortlist by drive time from site, measured properly, and we'll position the house between two sites when the rota splits your crew.
You rent the whole house for the job's duration. Bills — gas or oil, electric, water, council tax, Wi-Fi — go in our name, with the broadband tested before anyone arrives. Houses sleeping five or more have two bathrooms as standard. The weekly clean and fresh linen are part of the rate, and maintenance is a single call to us, day or night. Your office receives one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, no minimum crew or stay, and the price is per house — a small crew pays the same as a big one for that property.
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.
We shortlist across the Quantock fringe — Wiveliscombe, Milverton, Fitzhead, Bampton — and toward Taunton when the job sits that way. Every option comes with a genuine drive time from site, so you can weigh a cheaper house further out against the extra commute with the numbers in front of you rather than guesswork.
Inside two hours of your enquiry you'll have a written shortlist — whole houses matched to crew size, start date and site location, with drive times, parking layouts and bedroom counts. From choosing to check-in is usually a few working days, faster when the job starts at short notice.
Yes — gas or oil, electric, water, council tax and broadband all sit in our name, and the Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in so the crew is online first night. Your office receives one monthly invoice covering everything, paid by card, with no booking fees or separate utility bills to chase.
No. Two people for a fortnight get the same whole-house standard as a full gang for six months, and pricing is per property rather than per head. There's no minimum stay either — extend or shorten as the job changes with a single phone call, and the paperwork never changes.
Three things: the site postcode or location, crew size and expected stay length, plus the vehicle list if parking matters. From that we send a written shortlist within two hours with real drive times and one clear monthly price — no per-night rates, no deposits stacked on top, no bolt-on surprises.
Yes. Houses suit shift work far better than hotels — no reception hours, no breakfast windows, and a proper kitchen, laundry and blackout bedrooms available at any hour. Tell us the shift pattern at booking and we'll time the weekly clean for when the house is empty, and note key-safe entry for odd-hour returns.
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Need beds in Lydeard St Lawrence? 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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