Rowan Cottage
Sulhamstead Road, Reading, RG30 3SB · West Berkshire · South East
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 6 years old, and 5 of this operator's 71 rated services are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 6 years old — published 10 Apr 2020. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 5 of 71 of Community Homes of Intensive Care and Education Limited's rated services are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 9
- Registered with CQC
- 8 Dec 2010
- Run by
- Community Homes of Intensive Care and Education Limited
- Part of
- Choice Care Group · 83 services
- Phone
- 01189836003
- Website
- www.choicecaregroup.com
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 | 10 Apr 2020 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 10 Apr 2020 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 10 Apr 2020 |
| Responsive | Outstandingrating 3+ yrs old | 10 Apr 2020 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 10 Apr 2020 |
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
Same operator — 72 other locations
Other active services registered to Community Homes of Intensive Care and Education Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Abbeyfield Lodge | Good, published 17 Oct 2017rating 3+ yrs old | Hampshire |
| Albert Lodge | Good, published 12 Oct 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Portsmouth |
| Appleton House | Good, published 19 Sep 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Southampton |
| Appletrees | Good, published 14 Sep 2017rating 3+ yrs old | West Berkshire |
| Argyll House | Outstanding, published 14 Feb 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Swindon |
| Ballards Ash | Requires improvement, published 2 Apr 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Wiltshire |
| Beech Tree House | Good, published 28 Nov 2025 | Buckinghamshire |
| Beechcroft - Cheltenham | Good, published 15 May 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Gloucestershire |
| Boxgrove House | Good, published 4 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | West Berkshire |
| Bramerton | Outstanding, published 17 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Bridgman House | Good, published 25 Aug 2021rating 3+ yrs old | South Gloucestershire |
| Cambria House | Good, published 23 Feb 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Hampshire |
…and 60 more. See the full group view.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 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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- 4 Pages OrchardReading · 3 bedsOutstanding, published 21 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Peppard HouseReading · 7 bedsOutstanding, published 7 Jun 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- 1 Longmore RoadReading · 7 bedsGood, published 14 Oct 2017rating 3+ yrs old
- 188 Whitley Wood Lane Respite CareReading · 6 bedsGood, published 8 Dec 2017rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-122256185
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.