North Lodge, North East • England
North Lodge is a small hamlet in County Durham, in the DH postcode area between the old mining towns of Ferryhill and Spennymoor, close to the A1(M) and within easy reach of Durham city. It's the kind of place crews pass through rather than stay — which is exactly why a proper crew house here stands out. KrewBase arranges whole serviced properties in and around North Lodge, bills in, Wi-Fi tested, one monthly invoice.
Around North Lodge the housing is a patchwork of former pit villages: brick terraces along the old colliery rows, 1930s semis on the wider streets, and newer estates on the edges of Ferryhill and Spennymoor. Parking is the easy part — most houses here have a drive or generous kerb space for vans. We filter for warm, dry, properly heated properties with real bedrooms and, for five-plus crews, two bathrooms. We also check the broadband and test it before anyone moves in, because rural lines vary more than people expect.
Crews based around here cover central County Durham: housing construction and refurbishment across the former coalfield towns, road and utility work along the A1(M) corridor, logistics from the distribution sites around the motorway, and maintenance for public buildings and healthcare sites across the county. Some crews work sites spread between Durham, Bishop Auckland and the Tees towns. The crew house holds still while the job list changes — that's the point of it.
The A1(M) runs a short drive east, opening up Durham to the north, Darlington to the south and the wider North East beyond. Spennymoor and Ferryhill cover supermarkets, fuel and suppliers within minutes, and Durham city is close for anything bigger. Crews travel by road from here, so when you give us a site postcode we build the shortlist around real drive times at shift hours — not straight-line distances that fall apart at 7am.
Your crew takes the whole property and runs it as a home for the contract. Gas, electric, water, council tax and Wi-Fi are in KrewBase's name, with the broadband speed-tested before check-in. Parking is matched to your vehicles, and houses sleeping five or more have two bathrooms. Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are part of the rate, and maintenance comes to us. The company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, no minimum stay, no fuss.
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.
Normally within two hours of receiving the site postcode, headcount, dates and vehicle count. Stock around a hamlet this size is thin, so we shortlist across Ferryhill, Spennymoor and Trimdon in the same pass and tell you which option genuinely serves your site.
We cover the villages and towns across this part of central County Durham — Ferryhill, Spennymoor, Trimdon, Coxhoe and into Durham city when the site sits that way. The shortlist follows your site's drive time, not a fixed radius on a map.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are in KrewBase's name and covered by the monthly rate. Broadband is speed-tested before check-in — rural lines vary, so we check the actual speed at the house itself, not the postcode average on a coverage map.
One monthly invoice to the company, paid by card, covering rent, bills, cleaning and linen. No booking fees and no per-crew-member charges. If the contract runs long or the crew changes, the invoicing carries on unchanged from month to month.
Yes. Give us the shift pattern at booking and we'll set the house up for it — daytime sleeping arrangements, cleaners briefed around nights, and the noisier rooms away from the early sleepers. Night crews are a routine part of our work.
KrewBase does. Anything that breaks is reported to us and our team arranges the repair — heating, water, appliances, locks — with a 24-hour line for urgent calls. The crew's job is the job; the house is ours to keep right throughout the contract.
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Need beds in North Lodge? 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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