Windmill Lodge
Wildings Lane, Lytham St. Annes, FY8 3RJ · 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.
What the record says
Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 2 years old, and 4 of this operator's 5 rated homes are below Good.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 8 Mar 2024EffectiveRequires improvement, published 8 Mar 2024CaringRequires improvement, published 8 Mar 2024Well-ledRequires improvement, published 8 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
- 4 of 5 of Priory CC96 Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 205
- Registered with CQC
- 15 Dec 2025
- Run by
- Priory CC96 Limited
- Part of
- Welltower · 563 services
- Phone
- 07354902670
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 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvement | 8 Mar 2024 |
| Effective | Requires improvement | 8 Mar 2024 |
| Caring | Requires improvement | 8 Mar 2024 |
| Responsive | Good | 8 Mar 2024 |
| Well-led | Requires improvement | 8 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 published by CQC to 8 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.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Hesketh Park Lodge | Requires improvement, published 27 Aug 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Sefton |
| Ivy Gate Lodge | Requires improvement, published 17 Oct 2023 | Sefton |
| Lakelands Lodge | Good, published 6 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Lancashire |
| Lighthouse Lodge | Requires improvement, published 14 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Wirral |
| Marine View Lodge | Requires improvement, published 19 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Wirral |
| Yarnley House Care Home | Not yet rated | Hampshire |
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 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?
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Other services in Lytham St. Annesregistered for at least one of the same groups this service supports, listed with the strongest CQC ratings first. A place to look around — not a recommendation, and not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Clarence HouseLytham St. Annes · 20 bedsGood, published 3 Aug 2023
- Delaheys Nursing HomeLytham St. Annes · 28 bedsGood, published 20 May 2026
- Hedges House Residential Care HomeLytham St. Annes · 34 bedsGood, published 27 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Westholme Care Home LimitedLytham St. Annes · 26 bedsGood, published 6 Feb 2026
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- 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 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.