The Gables
Willoughby Road, Alford, LN13 9LF · Lincolnshire · East Midlands
What the record says
Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 5 years old.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 5 Aug 2021rating 3+ yrs oldEffectiveRequires improvement, published 15 May 2019rating 3+ yrs oldWell-ledRequires improvement, published 5 Aug 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 5 years old — published 5 Aug 2021, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 9
- Registered with CQC
- 24 Dec 2010
- Run by
- Mrs A D Pennington
- Phone
- 01507490171
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
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Care home without nursing · Community support for people with a learning disability · Supported living
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 5 Aug 2021 |
| Effective | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 15 May 2019 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 15 May 2019 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 15 May 2019 |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 5 Aug 2021 |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
More on what to look for and ask on a visit —including what an occupational therapist would check for particular needs — at choosing a care home.
- Take the visit checklistWhat to look for and the questions to ask when you visit — the things a rating cannot tell you.
- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
- Ask the council for a needs assessmentFree, whatever the savings, and the formal route to arranged care and funding.
- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes registered for care without nursing within 5 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Meadows Court Care Homeabout 1.8 miles · Skegness · 22 bedsGood, published 6 Aug 2024care homes service
- Newhaven Residential Homeabout 1.9 miles · Alford · 25 bedsGood, published 23 Oct 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Sandpiper Care Homeabout 3.4 miles · Alford · 30 bedsGood, published 28 May 2026
- The Sycamoresabout 3.4 miles · Alford · 8 bedsGood, published 23 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-112754649
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.