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Horkesley Manor

Nayland Road, Colchester, CO6 4ET · Essex · East of England

73 beds · operated by Stow Healthcare Group Limited

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement30 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old

CQC marks this as an inherited rating — carried over from the location's previous registration (for example after a change of ownership), not from an inspection of the current registration.

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 3 years old, and 1 of this operator's 8 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement30 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old
EffectiveRequires improvement30 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement30 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
3 years old — published 30 Sep 2022. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 8 of Stow Healthcare Group Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old30 Sep 2022
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old30 Sep 2022
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 Oct 2019
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 Oct 2019
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old30 Sep 2022

Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 7 other locations

Other active services registered to Stow Healthcare Group Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Brandon Park Residential and Nursing HomeOutstanding26 Nov 2022rating 3+ yrs oldSuffolk
Ford Place Nursing HomeOutstanding28 Feb 2018rating 3+ yrs oldNorfolk
Halstead Hall Care HomeGood25 Dec 2018rating 3+ yrs oldEssex
Manson HouseGood6 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs oldSuffolk
Melford Court Care HomeGood7 May 2026Suffolk
Stowlangtoft Hall Nursing HomeOutstanding5 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs oldSuffolk
Weavers GrangeGood10 Nov 2025Essex

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
12 Oct 2022
Beds
73
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-13725020178

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.