St Keverne, South West • England
St Keverne is the largest village on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, in the South West of England and the TR postcode area, sitting between Helston and the Helford River with the A394 the main route off the peninsula. Crews working across the Lizard and west Cornwall often base here. KrewBase houses them in whole serviced properties around St Keverne — bills in our name, Wi-Fi live, parking checked for vans, one monthly invoice to the company.
St Keverne is a proper village with deep working roots: granite cottages around the church and square, rows of older terraces, and a good belt of semis and detached houses on the lanes towards Coverack and Manaccan. Crews do best in the semis — off-road parking, gardens for kit, and neighbours long used to early-morning engine noise and vans loaded the night before.
We shortlist only what passes a working-crew inspection: parking measured against your vehicles, bathrooms for the headcount, heating serviced and broadband speed-tested. The Lizard's old stock is charming but often impractical — no parking, tiny bathrooms, cold stone walls — and we filter all of that out before it costs you a wasted evening of viewings you never needed at the end of a long day.
The Lizard Peninsula runs on the usual rural trades: agriculture and food production, seasonal maintenance and refurbs, small construction and housing jobs, and utility work along the peninsula's exposed infrastructure. Crews contracted across the wider Cornwall region base here when their patch includes the Lizard, because nothing on the peninsula is ever a quick run from the mainland towns, whatever the map says.
Because the peninsula is a dead end for traffic, crews based off-Lizard face a long commute over single-carriageway roads. St Keverne puts them minutes from site rather than an hour — which is the whole point of crew accommodation. It also has the shops, pub and petrol a crew needs on a daily basis, so nobody's driving back off the peninsula for supplies.
The A394 is the main route north to Helston, around 15 minutes away, where it meets the A39 for Falmouth or the road on to Penzance. The B-roads fan out across the peninsula to Mullion, the Helford villages and Cadgwith, and most sites on the Lizard are within 20 minutes of the village. For rail crew, Penzance and Truro are the usual mainline stations, both under an hour.
We shortlist by real drive time from your site — peninsula lanes are slower than the map suggests — and if a contract spans both the Lizard and the mainland towns, we'll place the crew where the weekly driving makes sense. When the job moves, the accommodation moves with it, and the commute never quietly becomes the crew's problem to swallow.
The whole house or flat is yours for the job — no room lets, no sharing with strangers. KrewBase holds council tax, energy, water and broadband in its own name, so the crew arrives at a home that's already live. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in and parking is verified against the actual vans on the booking, not assumed from the listing photos.
Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are standard, five-plus headcounts get two bathrooms, and maintenance calls come to us around the clock — the crew phones KrewBase and we coordinate the fix around their shifts. Your company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card: no booking fees, no minimum crew size and no minimum stay, whatever the length of the 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.
Within two working hours of your enquiry in most cases. The Lizard's stock is limited compared to Helston or Falmouth, so we may also show you options in neighbouring villages — always with honest drive times from your site so you can judge properly, and parking verified against your vehicles before anything reaches the list.
Yes — Coverack, Manaccan, Mullion, Cadgwith and the Helford side are all in our patch. Crews based in St Keverne can reach most peninsula sites within about 20 minutes, and we'll tell you plainly if a different village would cut the commute further or if basing off the peninsula makes more sense for where your sites actually are.
It's verified, not promised. We check every property against your vehicle list — number and size — before it reaches your shortlist. Village lanes are tight and old cottages often have no space at all, so this check filters out a lot of unsuitable stock before you ever see it, saving everyone a string of wasted journeys and viewings.
Yes — one monthly invoice covers rent and all bills paid by card, with no booking fees. The crew pays nothing at the property, and your accounts team processes a single document instead of a folder of utility receipts, however long the job runs or however many people rotate through the house over its course.
We speed-test every line before check-in and only shortlist properties where the measured speed handles streaming, video calls and online coursework. Rural Cornwall varies street by street, which is why we test rather than assume — and if a house fails the test, it simply doesn't make your shortlist at all.
Usually, yes. Weather and ground conditions push schedules around here, so extensions are routine. Give us as much notice as you can and we'll hold the house or line up a nearby alternative on the same terms, without the crew moving twice or the paperwork changing shape in the middle of the job.
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St Keverne sits about 47 miles from Plymouth. Plenty of crews working here base themselves in the city and drive out, especially on longer jobs or when the local supply is thin. Our contractor accommodation Plymouth page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in St Keverne? 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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