Cumbria House Care Home
84-86 Shorncliffe Road, Folkestone, CT20 2PG · Kent · South East
Diligence verdict
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 7 years old.
- Age of rating
- 7 years old — published 22 Aug 2018. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 32
- Registered with CQC
- 25 Nov 2010
- Run by
- Ashwood Park Healthcare Ltd
- Phone
- 01303254019
- Website
- www.ashwoodhealthcare.co.uk
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
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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Aug 2018 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Aug 2018 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Aug 2018 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Aug 2018 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Aug 2018 |
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 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- 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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Other services in Folkestoneregistered for at least one of the same groups this service supports, listed with the strongest CQC ratings first. A place to look around — not a recommendation, and not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- 95 Ashley AvenueFolkestone · 5 bedsGood, published 6 Sep 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Brampton LodgeFolkestone · 26 bedsGood, published 30 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- BroadmeadowFolkestone · 48 bedsGood, published 5 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Folkestone Care CentreFolkestone · 110 bedsGood, published 17 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-119218232
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.