Ottery St Mary, South West • England
Ottery St Mary sits on the River Otter in Devon's EX postcode area, a small working town about ten miles east of Exeter and close to the A30. KrewBase houses crews here in whole serviced properties, with bills, Wi-Fi and parking arranged before anyone arrives, giving your crew a proper base for jobs across east Devon, Exeter and the coast. Your company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card.
The town offers a good spread for its size: period terraces and older houses near the centre, mid-century semis along the main roads, and newer estates on the outskirts towards the Exeter and Honiton sides. The semis and estate houses tend to suit crews best, with driveways, gardens and room to spread out, while the terraces work for smaller crews needing to be central. The newer estates towards the bypass tend to have the driveways bigger crews need.
We shortlist only what passes the practical check: parking that fits your vehicles rather than the estate agent's hatchback, two bathrooms where five or more stay, heating for a cold snap, and a kitchen that can feed a working crew properly. Character is a bonus, never a substitute for function, and pretty-but-impractical properties are dropped early. Gardens and yards are noted where they exist, somewhere to air kit and park a trailer off the road.
Ottery's position between Exeter and Honiton puts it within reach of construction and housing development across east Devon, along with healthcare, logistics and manufacturing work in the Exeter corridor. Crews also come through for maintenance and refurbishment on the area's older housing stock and for public-service work across the district, with the coast at Sidmouth a short run south. Schools and surgeries across the district add their own steady maintenance programmes.
We keep the references general and focus on the practical: your site, your headcount, your dates, and a house that matches all three. Jobs here range from a few weeks to many months, and the let flexes to suit, with extensions handled without fuss when the programme slips. Programmes slip, so the let is built to flex without drama. The coast at Sidmouth and the A35 corridor bring their own steady flow of work through the seasons.
The A30 runs a few miles north, linking Exeter in about twenty minutes and Honiton in under fifteen, while the A3052 connects the town to Sidmouth, the coast and Exeter by a more direct route. Exeter's airport and mainline stations are within easy reach for crews travelling in, and Honiton's station on the Waterloo line serves the area by rail. Dorchester and the Dorset coast are reasonable runs east for jobs along the A35.
For sites further into Devon or towards Dorset we shortlist by measured drive time, and we will flag where a house on the right side of town saves the crew twenty minutes a day. The commute is checked against the shift pattern, not just the map, so early starts get a realistic estimate. Station pickups from Honiton or Exeter are arranged around arrival times so nobody waits on a platform with bags of tools.
The crew gets the whole house: kitchen, living space, washing machine and proper beds, with gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband all held in our name and included in the rate. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, crews of five or more get two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with fresh linen keeps the place decent between shifts. We check heating systems properly, because a cold crew is a slow crew.
Maintenance is ours to deal with, and your company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, no minimum crew size, no minimum stay, and one named contact who knows the property from the first enquiry through to checkout. Moving out is as simple as moving in, with checkout handled in one conversation. Utility failures are chased by us, so a supplier problem never becomes the crew's admin job.
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.
Send the headcount, site and dates and we normally come back within about two hours in a working day. Each property on the list has already been checked for parking, bathroom count, Wi-Fi and drive time, so you are choosing between workable options rather than doing the verification yourself or chasing listing photos.
Yes. Alongside the town we shortlist in the surrounding villages towards Exeter, Honiton and Sidmouth, depending on where the site sits. The shortlist follows the commute, so if a village house knocks fifteen minutes off the drive and has the parking, that is the one we put forward rather than a prettier option further out.
Parking is confirmed against your actual vehicles before you book. Semis and estate houses usually offer driveways that take one or two vans comfortably, while some central terraces rely on on-street parking. We tell you which is which upfront so there are no surprises on day one, whatever size vehicles the crew runs.
Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are in our name and in the rate, and Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in. If a router dies or a boiler plays up mid-stay, the crew reports it to us and we fix it, so your office never becomes a landlord and the crew never spends an evening on hold to a supplier.
Extensions are routine. Give us as much notice as you can and we will hold the current property if possible or arrange an equivalent nearby, so the crew never spends a week in a hotel between lets. Early finishes are handled under the notice terms in the agreement, which are set out plainly before anyone moves in.
For stays beyond a few nights, usually. A whole house gives the crew a kitchen, laundry, parking and room to decompress, typically at a lower cost per head than hotel rooms. For very short stays a hotel can be simpler, but most crews on multi-week jobs are happier, better fed and better rested with a front door of their own.
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Need beds in Ottery St Mary? 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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