Templecombe, South West • England
Templecombe is a small Somerset village in the Blackmore Vale, South West England, in the BA postcode area, where the A357 threads between Wincanton a few miles north and Yeovil to the south. The A303 lies within easy reach east and west. KrewBase arranges whole serviced houses and cottages here for crews working across the vale and the Somerset-Dorset border \u2014 bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked against your vehicles, one monthly invoice for the whole crew.
Templecombe itself is compact, and its housing is classic vale stock: stone and brick cottages, a terrace or two, and the farmhouses scattered along the lanes towards Henstridge and Milborne Port. For a crew, the workable properties are the ones with somewhere to put a van and a kitchen that wasn't designed for a weekend let. We check each shortlist house in person for parking, heating and drying space, and we're straight about which villages suit your site and which just look close on the map.
Because the village is small, we usually widen the net to Henstridge, Milborne Port and the lanes either side of the A357. Ten minutes of honest country lane buys a bigger house, a proper driveway and a quieter night, and out here that trade is nearly always worth it. Your crew still gets the whole property either way, and we tell you plainly what the drive to site looks like before you sign anything.
Templecombe's draw is its position rather than its size. Crews working the A303 corridor, the farms and estates of the Blackmore Vale, the housing developments around Wincanton and Yeovil, and the utility and infrastructure jobs strung along the Somerset-Dorset border all find the village a handy middle camp. There is steady rural work too: barn conversions, estate maintenance, agricultural building \u2014 the sort of jobs that need a proper base for weeks at a time rather than a nightly hunt for a room.
We keep job talk generic by design \u2014 your contract details stay yours \u2014 but the pattern is consistent across the vale: small crews, long jobs, and a need for a real house rather than a room above a pub. That's exactly what we arrange, and we've yet to meet a crew that missed hotel breakfasts after a week in a proper kitchen.
The A357 runs through the village, north to Wincanton in about ten minutes and south towards Yeovil in around twenty. The A303 crosses a few miles south of Yeovil, linking London-wards east and Exeter-wards west, and the A30 corridor around Sherborne lies to the south. Templecombe station, on the Waterloo to Exeter line, is the village's quiet asset \u2014 crews can arrive by train and walk to their digs without needing a lift arranged.
If your site is off the beaten lanes, we flip the approach: give us the site postcode and we measure real drive times at shift hours. Vale lanes are slower than they look \u2014 tractors, mud and hedgerows see to that \u2014 and we'd rather hand you an honest half hour than a hopeful fifteen minutes that quietly becomes twenty-five every morning.
You get the whole house \u2014 kitchen, sitting room, garden if there is one \u2014 with bills in our name from day one. Wi-Fi is tested before anyone arrives, parking is checked against the vehicles you list, and a crew of five or more gets two bathrooms. A weekly clean and fresh linen come as standard, and maintenance is our phone that rings, not yours, whether it's a boiler in January or a lock in July.
One monthly invoice covers everything, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. Small crew, long job, big crew, short job \u2014 the house works the same either way, and the invoice stays just as simple, whether the crew is in place for three weeks or the best part of a year, and it consolidates neatly if the job spreads across more than one house.
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.
About two hours once we have your dates, crew size and site postcode. Rural Somerset moves at its own pace, so we'd always say get the enquiry in as soon as site dates look likely \u2014 we can hold a house while contracts catch up, and holding costs nothing.
Yes \u2014 Henstridge, Milborne Port, Abbas Combe, and towards Wincanton and Milborne Wick depending on the site. The Blackmore Vale is our patch, so the shortlist follows the job rather than the parish boundary, and Templecombe sits usefully in the middle of it all.
It's one of our first checks. You tell us the vehicles, we only put forward Templecombe-area properties that genuinely park them \u2014 driveways, yards, off-street bays. Country lanes and overnight kit left on the road don't mix, so we don't suggest houses where that's the plan.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are all in our name and in the monthly rate. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, so the first evening isn't lost to a provider's hold music or a surprise bill three months down the line.
That's the standard arrangement. One invoice a month for rent and bills, payment by card, no booking fees. It consolidates cleanly whether you've got two people in a cottage or a bigger crew spread across several houses around Templecombe and the vale.
Your crew tells us, we sort it at the Templecombe property \u2014 plumber, electrician, locksmith, whatever's needed. Rural trades take a little longer to reach sometimes, but the chasing, the cost and the accountability all sit with us, not with your site team or the lads on the tools.
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