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Windmill Lodge

Wildings Lane, Lytham St. Annes, FY8 3RJ · Lancashire · North West

205 beds · operated by Priory CC96 Limited, part of Welltower

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement8 Mar 2024

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 2 years old, and 5 of this operator's 6 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement8 Mar 2024
EffectiveRequires improvement8 Mar 2024
CaringRequires improvement8 Mar 2024
Well-ledRequires improvement8 Mar 2024
Age of rating
2 years old — published 8 Mar 2024. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
5 of 6 of Priory CC96 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 questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvement8 Mar 2024
EffectiveRequires improvement8 Mar 2024
CaringRequires improvement8 Mar 2024
ResponsiveGood8 Mar 2024
Well-ledRequires improvement8 Mar 2024

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 — 6 other locations

Other active services registered to Priory CC96 Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Hesketh Park LodgeRequires improvement27 Aug 2022rating 3+ yrs oldSefton
Ivy Gate LodgeRequires improvement17 Oct 2023Sefton
Lakelands LodgeGood6 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs oldLancashire
Lighthouse LodgeRequires improvement14 May 2021rating 3+ yrs oldWirral
Marine View LodgeRequires improvement19 May 2021rating 3+ yrs oldWirral
Yarnley House Care HomeNot yet ratedHampshire

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
15 Dec 2025
Beds
205
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-25752767312

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.