Stoke St Mary, South West • England
A couple of miles east of Taunton lies Stoke St Mary, a small village in Somerset, England, in the TA postcode area with the A358 running past towards the Blackdown Hills. There is no guesthouse row and no meaningful rental stock — so crews working here and across Taunton Deane come to KrewBase. We arrange whole serviced houses and flats nearby: bills in our name, Wi-Fi ready before check-in, one monthly invoice for the whole crew. Give us the site and headcount and the accommodation is off your plate entirely.
The village is mostly older houses and farm buildings along narrow country lanes, so crews are usually placed a short drive out — towards Taunton's eastern edge, the villages along the A358, or the small towns within easy reach. What works for a crew is the same everywhere: post-war semis and modest detached houses with driveways, gardens and neighbours who don't mind a 5am start or vans on the drive.
We check each property against real crew life rather than an estate-agent description — parking sized to your vehicles, a second bathroom for five or more, Wi-Fi that's actually fast at 8pm when everyone's online, and landlords comfortable with shift patterns. Anything rural gets an extra look at lane width and turning space, because the wrong lane can cost your biggest vehicle its wing mirrors in week one.
Crews based near Stoke St Mary are typically working across Taunton Deane and the surrounding Somerset countryside: construction and housing development in and around Taunton, local infrastructure and utilities work along the lanes and villages, and the agricultural and food businesses of the area keeping maintenance and fit-out teams busy through the year. NHS and healthcare work around Taunton accounts for a fair share of the rest.
Jobs here often move — a site in Taunton one month, something out towards the Blackdown Hills or along the A358 the next — so we shortlist by drive time from the actual site postcode and re-shortlist if the job moves. The house should always sit between the crew and the site, not off to one side adding dead miles to every shift.
The A358 runs west into Taunton in minutes and east up over the Blackdown Hills, while the M5 junctions around Taunton open up the whole south-west corridor for jobs further afield. For rail travellers, Taunton station sits on the Bristol to Exeter main line, and crews heading cross-country can pick up the A303 east or the A361 north without much fuss. Most gangs run vehicles, so road time is what we plan around.
Give us the site postcode and we shortlist around measured drive times at your actual shift hours. The school-run shortcut that adds ten minutes at 7am, the lane that's fine in a car but tight in a van — that is exactly the kind of local detail we weed out before a house ever reaches you. The station option matters for gangs whose gaffer travels in while the rest arrive by van — one base, several ways of reaching it.
You take the whole property — every bed, every room, no strangers in the next bed along. Bills — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband — go in our name, Wi-Fi is tested before anyone moves in, parking is checked against your real vehicles, and crews of five or more get two bathrooms so the morning doesn't start with a queue. Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are included, and all maintenance is our problem to chase. On a long Somerset contract those are the details that decide whether a crew stays settled or starts looking for reasons to move out.
It rolls into one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. A couple of sparks on a short job get the same standard of house as a full gang on a long contract. Send the site, headcount and dates and you'll have a checked shortlist within two working hours. If anything needs extending, one message to us is enough — there's no middleman and no paperwork for your gaffer to chase at the end of a shift.
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.
The village itself is tiny, so we don't promise a house inside it. We shortlist across the surrounding area — towards Taunton, along the A358 and the nearby villages — wherever the drive time to your site works. Everything we send is a whole serviced house with bills in, parking checked and Wi-Fi tested, so you never end up vetting properties yourself after a long shift.
Two working hours from a proper enquiry: site postcode, headcount and dates. Every option is pre-checked for drive time at your shift hours, parking against your vehicle list, bathroom count and Wi-Fi, so the shortlist is bookable on arrival rather than a pile of maybes needing a second round of viewings to sort through.
Parking is one of our hard filters. Tell us what you're bringing — vans, pickups, a trailer — and we only shortlist properties with off-street space that genuinely fits, verified before you commit. On rural properties we also check turning room and lane access, because a vehicle that can't reach the house or turn round at the gate is a problem on day one, not day thirty.
Yes. Gas, electricity, water, council tax and broadband are all in our name and included in the one monthly figure. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, so evening downtime actually works for the lads — streaming, calls home, paperwork — and nothing is ever billed back to the crew at the end of the month.
That's the standard arrangement: one invoice per property per month covering rent, bills and the weekly clean, paid by card. There are no booking fees, nothing lands on the crew's card at checkout, and we can set new company accounts up quickly. Your accounts team gets one clean document per house instead of chasing receipts.
Tell us as soon as you know. Extensions are usually simple where the house allows, agreed on the same terms so there's no awkward renegotiation halfway through a contract. If the site moves, we'll re-shortlist around the new postcode so the commute doesn't creep up on the crew in month two or three.
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Stoke St Mary sits about 28 miles from Exeter. 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 Exeter page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Stoke 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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