Dovehaven Lodge
Tag Lane, Preston, PR2 7AB · Lancashire · North West
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.
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: Dovehaven Lodge, DHCH21 Ltd, deregistered 23 May 2025; Dovehaven Lodge, Mark Jonathan Gilbert and Luke William Gilbert, deregistered 24 Apr 2020.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Safe is Requires improvement (13 May 2023), the rating is 3 years old, and 3 of this operator's 20 rated homes are below Good.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 13 May 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 13 May 2023, 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 DHCH14 Limited's 20 rated homes, 3 are below Good — not 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
- 22 May 2025
- Run by
- DHCH14 Limited
- Phone
- 01772723745
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Who this service supports
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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 | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 13 May 2023 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 16 Sep 2021 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 16 Sep 2021 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 16 Sep 2021 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 13 May 2023 |
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 — 22 other locations
Other active services registered to DHCH14 Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Argyle Park Care | Good, published 25 Aug 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Sefton |
| Ashton View Nursing Home | Good, published 12 Apr 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Wigan |
| Avonleigh Gardens | Good, published 5 Jan 2024 | Oldham |
| Birch Abbey | Requires improvement, published 9 Apr 2025 | Sefton |
| Brooklands Care Home | Good, published 8 Nov 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Liverpool |
| Callands Care Home | Requires improvement, published 6 Aug 2026 | Warrington |
| Cedar Garden | Not yet rated | Lancashire |
| Church View | Outstanding, published 15 Apr 2026 | Liverpool |
| Dean Wood Manor | Good, published 5 Aug 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Wigan |
| Dovehaven Grove | Good, published 15 Feb 2026 | Lancashire |
| Dovehaven House | Good, published 2 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Lancashire |
| Dovehaven Residential Care Home | Not yet rated | Sefton |
…and 10 more.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
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- 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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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes with nursing within 5 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.
- Cedar Gardenabout 0 miles · Preston · 30 bedsNot yet rated
- Dovedale Courtabout 0.5 miles · Preston · 33 bedsGood, published 13 Dec 2023
- Hulton House Care Residenceabout 0.9 miles · Preston · 74 bedsRequires improvement, published 8 Aug 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Banksfield Nursing Homeabout 1.1 miles · Preston · 42 bedsRequires improvement, published 14 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-22159976072
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.