Layston Grove Care Home
Keen Avenue, Buntingford, SG9 9SU · Hertfordshire · East of England
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: Layston Grove Care Home, Halcyon Care Homes No 1 Limited, deregistered 4 Nov 2022; Layston Grove Care Home, Oakdale Care Homes No. 2 Limited, deregistered 8 Sep 2021.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but 19 of this operator's 130 rated services are below Good.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Anchor Hanover Group's 130 rated services, 19 are below Good — not this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 66
- Registered with CQC
- 3 Nov 2022
- Run by
- Anchor Hanover Group
- Part of
- Anchor · 132 services
- Phone
- 01763274327
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 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Good | 11 Apr 2025 |
| Effective | Good | 11 Apr 2025 |
| Caring | Good | 11 Apr 2025 |
| Responsive | Good | 11 Apr 2025 |
| Well-led | Good | 11 Apr 2025 |
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
Same operator — 131 other locations
Other active services registered to Anchor Hanover Group. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Anchor Integrated Care & Housing Village - Denham Garden Village | Good, published 21 Aug 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Buckinghamshire |
| Anchor Trust (The Laureates) | Good, published 26 Mar 2026 | Leeds |
| Ashcroft | Good, published 12 Sep 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Bradford |
| Augusta Court | Good, published 4 Oct 2018rating 3+ yrs old | West Sussex |
| Austin Place | Good, published 11 May 2026 | Surrey |
| Beech Hall | Outstanding, published 26 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Leeds |
| Beechfield Lodge | Good, published 22 Dec 2023 | Salford |
| Berkeley Court | Good, published 16 Jul 2025 | Leeds |
| Bethune Court | Good, published 3 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old | East Sussex |
| Bilton Court | Good, published 20 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old | North Northamptonshire |
| Birkenhead Court | Good, published 12 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Wirral |
| Bishopstoke Park | Requires improvement, published 8 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Hampshire |
…and 119 more. See the full group view.
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?
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- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
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- 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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See a sample and order →Similar services nearby
Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes registered for care without nursing within 10 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.
- Windmill Lodge Ltdabout 0.2 miles · Buntingford · 6 bedsGood, published 9 Aug 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Libury Hallabout 3.4 miles · Ware · 40 bedsGood, published 8 Oct 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Margaret Houseabout 6.6 miles · Royston · 43 bedsGood, published 5 Dec 2017rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Martins Houseabout 7.3 miles · Stevenage · 60 bedsGood, published 19 Oct 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-13693158947
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.