South Brent, South West • England
Where Dartmoor drops toward the South Hams, you'll find South Brent — a working village in Devon, South West England, in the TQ postcode area and a short hop from the A38 between Plymouth and Exeter. KrewBase houses crews here in whole serviced properties with bills in our name and one monthly invoice for your company. Moorland estates, farms across the South Hams, or a contract commuting up and down the expressway: whatever the job, we shortlist houses by real drive time from site.
South Brent is a proper working village on the southern edge of Dartmoor, where the moor drops down toward the Avon valley. The stock reflects its farming roots: granite and stone cottages along the old streets, interwar and post-war semis up the lanes, and some newer builds on the village edges. Crews do best in the semis and edge-of-village houses — room on the drive for two vans, and no ancient lane to negotiate with a trailer on the back.
Our checklist is the same here as anywhere: parking verified against your vehicles, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, a kitchen fit for batch cooking, and two bathrooms for five-plus crews where we can find them. Every property on the shortlist is let whole, so your crew isn't sharing with strangers or tiptoeing round someone else's furniture at 5am. Consistency matters more than views when the job runs for months.
The moor and the A38 corridor shape the work here. Quarrying and moorland estate management on Dartmoor, agriculture across the South Hams, utilities and grid work along the valley, and housing development in the villages between here and Plymouth. The area also supports crews on longer contracts working across Devon — the A38 makes South Brent a workable base for sites in either direction.
We keep references generic on purpose: your job might be construction, rail-adjacent work, energy or local infrastructure, and it doesn't matter to us. What matters is the site pin, so we can shortlist houses by real drive time rather than offering whatever's nearest the office and calling it convenient. The pin and the headcount are all we need to start.
The A38 Devon Expressway is minutes away — Plymouth is about 18 miles south-west, Exeter roughly 25 north-east, and Ivybridge five miles down the road. Totnes sits about seven miles east on the A385 for supplies and crew changes, and the villages of the South Hams spread out to the south. For rail, Totnes and Ivybridge both have stations on the Exeter to Plymouth line.
Crews heading onto the moor should expect slower lanes once off the A38 — which is exactly why we measure drive time from the gate before shortlisting. Tell us where the site pin is and we'll put the house on the right side of the village, so the commute works with the shift pattern rather than against it. That's normal for this corner of Devon, and we account for it in every shortlist.
Whole house, bills in our name — gas, electric, water, council tax. Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against your actual vehicles, and houses sleeping five or more get two bathrooms where the stock allows. A weekly clean and fresh linen keep the place liveable for the length of the job, and anything that breaks is our phone call, not yours.
Maintenance is our problem, and your accounts team gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. Two people for a fortnight is as welcome as twenty for six months — small crews get exactly the same service as the big ones. Extending the stay is usually just a phone call if the programme slips.
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.
Typically within two hours. Send the site location, headcount and start date, and we'll shortlist whole houses in South Brent and nearby, each checked against real drive time from the site gate, measured on a working morning rather than guessed from a map.
Yes — the A38 makes it a strong middle base for either city. Tell us which side the site sits and we'll favour houses that keep the commute short, whether that's in the village, Ivybridge or along the expressway, and we'll show you the numbers.
Yes. We favour semis and edge-of-village properties with drives, and we confirm space against your vehicle list before you book — vans, pickups and trailers. Better a five-minute check now than a five-week problem with the neighbours. Tell us what you're running and we'll match the property to it.
All of them: gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband, in our name and in the rate. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, so there's no first-night router battle and nobody on site is fronting utility money or chasing receipts. Your accounts team sees one line item per house, card payment.
Yes — one monthly invoice per house paid by card, covering rent and every bill, with no booking fees. Your accounts team deals with a single line item per crew house, and your crew never has to pay for anything out of their own pocket.
We do. Anything that breaks, your crew calls us and we coordinate the fix with the landlord. Your site manager stays out of it, there's no extra charge on the invoice, and no lost working time while somebody's cousin is found to have a look at the boiler.
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If South Brent is short on the right house for your crew, Plymouth is the obvious back-up, roughly 14 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Plymouth page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in South Brent? 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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