Fifteen minutes down the road to a yard where you can drive right up to your unit — and park a boat somewhere the salt air can't reach it.
SOS Storage serves Teignmouth and Shaldon from Old Newton Road, Kingskerswell, TQ12 5LB — around fifteen minutes via the A381. A 5ft container is £96 a month, a 10ft container £125 a month, a 20ft container £180 a month, and an outdoor pitch for a boat, caravan or motorhome £120 a month, all including VAT. The yard is gated and CCTV-monitored, open 7:30am to 8:30pm every day of the year.
Teignmouth's older streets weren't built for parking, never mind for storing a boat or a caravan. Moving that off the road and into a gated yard takes a lot of hassle out of owning one.
Teignmouth's older streets were laid out long before anyone imagined two cars per household, let alone a car plus a boat trailer. Parking is the town's perennial argument, and anything that has to live on the road — a trailer, a dinghy, a caravan — is both a nuisance and a soft target.
The town also has a strong small-boat culture, helped along by the estuary and the back beach, and small boats generate a lot of equipment. Outboards, sails, fenders, oars, wetsuits, trailers: none of it belongs in a hallway, and much of it does badly in a damp shed.
Add the seafront businesses, which have the same winter problem as everywhere else along this coast, and the picture is consistent. What people need here is somewhere dry and secure a short drive away, with room to turn a trailer round without three-point-turning on a residential street.
Kept on hardstanding away from the seafront, with easy towing in and out for launch days.
Off the street and behind a locked gate for the winter.
Deckchairs, stock, signage and equipment stored between seasons.
Somewhere for the bikes, tools and boxes when the house has run out of room.
Autumn brings the boats and the seafront businesses, spring takes them back out again. In between, the steady demand is domestic: households in properties with no garage and no off-street parking who have simply run out of anywhere to put things. We also take a fair number of enquiries from Shaldon and Bishopsteignton, which are a similar run to us across or around the estuary.
£96 / month inc. VAT
Our smallest — about a large garden shed.
£125 / month inc. VAT
Roughly a 1-bed flat's worth of furniture.
£180 / month inc. VAT
Fits the contents of a typical 3-bed home.
£120 / month inc. VAT
Caravans, motorhomes, boats & trailers.
3-month minimum stay. £50 refundable deposit, which covers the padlock. Need several units or something oversized? Talk to us.
From Teignmouth it's the A381 towards Newton Abbot, then round towards Kingskerswell. You skirt Newton Abbot rather than going through it, so it's a quicker run than the map suggests — particularly in summer.
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