Residential, dementia and respite care for 34 people, run by the same family since 1998. Our weekly fees are on this site. Come and look round and meet Donna.
We have 34 rooms, and the owners are in the building most days. There is no head office to ring and no regional manager to be escalated to. If something goes wrong you will be talking to the person who can fix it.
We're a residential home, so we don't have registered nurses on our own staff. If your relative needs nursing care we'll say so, and point you to homes nearby that do it well.
Residential
Help with the things that have got harder: washing, dressing, remembering tablets, cooking for one. Residents bring their own furniture and keep their own routines.
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Dementia
The same faces on shift, a settled routine, a secure garden with a level path, and staff trained to step into someone's reality rather than argue them out of it.
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Respite
One week to a couple of months. Recovery after a hospital stay, or a break for a carer who hasn't had one in years. Same rooms, same staff, no pressure to stay on.
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Pick the kind of care and room for the range. The full list, including what we charge extra for, is on the fees page.
Residential care in a standard room. All meals, personal care day and night, laundry, activities and utilities are inside that figure.
Fees apply from 01/04/2026 and are reviewed each April. Local authority and NHS funded places work differently.
Respite has a one-week minimum stay
"I started here in 2001 as a weekend care assistant, back when Mrs Field ran the kitchen and you could smell the bread from the bus stop. I've been the registered manager since 2014. There's a biscuit tin on my desk full of spare hearing aid batteries, because that's the thing families always forget, and it tells you most of what you need to know about this job."
Donna Whitmore · Registered Manager
Ring and ask for Donna. If she's in the building, she'll come to the phone. 0116 496 0742
Sitting rooms you can shut the door on, a conservatory that catches the morning, and a garden with a level path all the way round. Tap any photograph to see it larger.
Every room has a basin, a TV point, a phone point, a window that opens, and space for the chair from home. Six rooms are on the ground floor and four of those open onto the garden.
From first tea to last rounds. The marker shows where the day has got to now.
This week. Families are welcome at any of it. Nothing is compulsory, and that matters more than the list does.
Call us, or book a show-round below. A person picks up, and it is often Donna.
Come and see us on an ordinary day. Mealtimes included, nothing staged.
Donna visits your relative at home or in hospital. Free, and no commitment either way.
The exact weekly fee and what it covers, in writing, before anyone signs.
Room ready, bed made, name on the door, and a named carer for the first fortnight.
If it isn't working, either side can say so, without penalty.
"Mum went in for two weeks' respite in February while my brother was in hospital and she is still there, which tells you everything really. She has her own bits of furniture around her and Becky on the morning shift knows exactly how she likes her porridge (barely cooked, don't ask). We looked at three homes. This was the only one that told us the price before we'd even visited."
"Dad has vascular dementia and had become very anxious at home. I won't pretend the first fortnight was easy, he asked for his car keys every single day, but the staff never once made him feel silly. Priya has a way of steering him back to his chair with a cup of tea that we never managed in two years. He believes he helps run the place now."
"My aunt spent her last eight months at the home and I can't fault a single day. When she stopped coming down for meals the girls brought hers up and sat with her while she ate. At the end, the district nurses and the home's staff worked together and someone from the home was with her when she went, at two in the morning. None of us will forget that."
Example reviews
Half an hour, on an ordinary day. We'll ask about care needs face to face, once we've met you. Weekends are fine, and so are evenings.
Or just ring us on 0116 496 0742. Someone answers between 8am and 8pm.
Your slot is in the diary. Donna will ring to confirm and to ask what care you're looking for.
We train people from scratch. Rotas go out four weeks ahead, breaks are paid, and nine of our eleven care staff have been here more than three years.
Half an hour on an ordinary day, mealtimes included. Weekends and evenings are fine too, so ring if none of these work.
If none of them suit, ring 0116 496 0742 and we’ll find one that does.
Your slot. We’ll ask about care needs when we meet.
Donna will ring to confirm, usually the same day, and to ask what you're looking for.
Running late? Don't worry, just come. Need to change it? Ring 0116 496 0742.
