Crossways Residential Care Home
Station Road, Northwich, CW9 7PN · Cheshire West and Chester · North West
39 beds · operated by Croftwood Care (Cheshire) Limited, part of Minster Care Group
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 Good overall, but Safe is Requires improvement (29 Apr 2022), the rating is 4 years old, and 2 of this operator's 10 rated homes are below Good.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement29 Apr 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 4 years old — published 29 Apr 2022. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 2 of 10 of Croftwood Care (Cheshire) Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 29 Apr 2022 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 29 Apr 2022 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 29 Apr 2022 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 29 Apr 2022 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 29 Apr 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 — 9 other locations
Other active services registered to Croftwood Care (Cheshire) Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Astbury Lodge Residential Care Home | Good17 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Cheshire West and Chester |
| Holcroft Grange Residential Care Home | Requires improvement5 Jan 2026 | Warrington |
| Ideal Home | Requires improvement24 Aug 2023 | Shropshire |
| Leycester House Residential Care Home | Good3 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Cheshire East |
| Parklands Residential Care Home | Good18 Jul 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Cheshire East |
| The Hawthorns | Good22 Apr 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Cheshire East |
| Wealstone Residential Home | Good18 Sep 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Cheshire West and Chester |
| Westy Hall Residential Care Home | Good8 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Warrington |
| Whetstone Hey Residential Home | Good23 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Cheshire West and Chester |
Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- On CQC’s site
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Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.