Lyme Regis, South West • England
Lyme Regis curls around its Cobb harbour beneath cliffs of blue lias — a DT-postcode Dorset town in South West England, reached along the A3052 from Axminster. The same geography that makes it famous makes it tricky: steep streets, seasonal lets, hotel rates through the roof. Crews working across west Dorset and the Devon border get far more from a whole serviced house booked by the month. KrewBase supplies exactly that: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested, parking checked for real vans, one monthly invoice.
Inland Lyme is surprisingly practical: the newer estates above the old town have driveways, garages and sensible family semis that take a crew of four or five without drama. The famous harbour streets, by contrast, are centuries old — charm in abundance, parking for precisely nothing. We shortlist the upper town and the villages along the A3052 toward Axminster and Charmouth, checking each house for van parking on the property, two bathrooms where the crew needs them, and heating suited to a winter by the sea rather than a summer fortnight.
West Dorset keeps crews busy with construction and housing development around the market towns, year-round maintenance on the area's famously demanding older building stock, coastal and utility infrastructure work along the shoreline towns, and healthcare placements covering Lyme and the surrounding villages. Winter, when the holiday trade sleeps, is prime time for building work — and when every guest house is shut or expensive, a crew house on a monthly invoice is the difference between taking the job and walking away from it.
The A3052 climbs from the seafront to Axminster — about fifteen minutes — where it meets the A35 for Honiton, Bridport and the wider road network. Crews working further afield use Axminster's station on the Waterloo–Exeter line. Inside Lyme itself the streets are steep and narrow, so the real question is never distance but how a van handles the hill and where it sleeps at night. We shortlist by drive time from site and by parking that works for your actual vehicles, and we tell you both numbers before you book.
The whole property is yours for the job. Bills — gas, electric, water, council tax, Wi-Fi — sit in our name, and the broadband is speed-tested before anyone arrives. Houses sleeping five or more get two bathrooms as standard. A weekly clean and fresh linen keep the place straight, and maintenance goes to our team, not your site manager. Your office gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees, no minimum crew or stay, and pricing per house — two sparks for a month pay the same as a full gang would 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.
Cost first: a whole house on one monthly invoice beats several hotel rooms over weeks or months, especially in a resort town. Then practicality — a kitchen, washing machine, living room and parking outside the door keep a crew functional, while hotel stock here is seasonal and priced for holidays. Houses are for contracts; hotels are for nights.
Inside two hours of your enquiry we send a written shortlist — whole houses with drive times from site, parking layouts and bedroom counts, matched to crew size and start date. From choosing to check-in is usually a few working days, faster when the job is urgent.
Yes, and it's a hard filter here. The old town's streets were built for horses, so we only shortlist houses where your actual vehicles fit on the property — checked against your vehicle list, not the listing photos. Trailers and small plant can be accommodated where the job needs them; just tell us at enquiry.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are all in our name, and the connection is speed-tested before check-in so the crew is online first night. Your office receives one monthly invoice covering everything paid by card — no booking fees, no separate utility bills, nothing extra to reconcile.
Three things: the site postcode or location, your crew size and expected stay, and the vehicle list if parking matters. From that we shortlist real houses within two hours, each with genuine drive time and one clear monthly price. No per-night rates, no deposits stacked on top, no bolt-on surprises.
Yes — houses handle shift patterns far better than hotels. No reception hours, no breakfast windows, and a proper kitchen, laundry and blackout bedrooms available at any hour. Give us the shift pattern at booking and we'll schedule the weekly clean around it, with key-safe entry for lads returning at odd hours.
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If Lyme Regis is short on the right house for your crew, Exeter is the obvious back-up, roughly 26 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Exeter page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Lyme Regis? 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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