Ashbourne Lodge
Derby Road, Ashbourne, DE6 1BH · Derbyshire · East Midlands
What the record says
Rated Outstanding overall, but the rating is 6 years old.
- Age of rating
- 6 years old — published 1 Jan 2020, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of James Hudson(Builders)Limited's 3 rated homes, none are below Good — including this one.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 80
- Registered with CQC
- 29 Aug 2014
- Run by
- James Hudson(Builders)Limited
- Phone
- 01335301400
- Website
- www.milfordcare.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 with 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 | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 1 Jan 2020 |
| Effective | Outstandingrating 3+ yrs old | 1 Jan 2020 |
| Caring | Outstandingrating 3+ yrs old | 1 Jan 2020 |
| Responsive | Outstandingrating 3+ yrs old | 1 Jan 2020 |
| Well-led | Outstandingrating 3+ yrs old | 1 Jan 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 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 2 other locations
Other active services registered to James Hudson(Builders)Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Buddleia House Care Home | Good, published 8 Sep 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Nottinghamshire |
| Hazelgrove Care Home | Good, published 13 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Nottinghamshire |
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 with nursing within 25 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.
- Barrowhill Hallabout 5.6 miles · Uttoxeter · 74 bedsRequires improvement, published 12 Nov 2025
- Dove House Care Homeabout 9.7 miles · Ashbourne · 42 bedsNot yet rated
- Kirk House Care Homeabout 9.9 miles · Uttoxeter · 35 bedsGood, published 13 Sep 2024
- Milford House Care Homeabout 10.1 miles · Belper · 65 bedsGood, published 18 May 2019rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-1562428558
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.