78 Polwell Lane
Barton Seagrave, Kettering, NN15 6UB · North Northamptonshire · East Midlands
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 8 years old, and 3 of this operator's 56 rated homes are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 8 years old — published 17 Mar 2018, 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 Consensus Support Services Limited's 56 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 without nursing
- Beds
- 5
- Registered with CQC
- 27 Oct 2011
- Run by
- Consensus Support Services Limited
- Phone
- 01536722609
- Website
- www.consensussupport.com
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 without 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 | 17 Mar 2018 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 17 Mar 2018 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 17 Mar 2018 |
| Responsive | Outstandingrating 3+ yrs old | 17 Mar 2018 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 17 Mar 2018 |
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 — 56 other locations
Other active services registered to Consensus Support Services Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Windsor Avenue | Good, published 15 May 2018rating 3+ yrs old | North Northamptonshire |
| 22 De Parys Avenue | Good, published 20 Mar 2024 | Bedford |
| 31 King Edwards Grove | Good, published 31 Aug 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Richmond upon Thames |
| 46 The Grove | Good, published 29 Jul 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Hounslow |
| 48 The Grove | Good, published 15 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Hounslow |
| 82 Bear Road | Good, published 23 Sep 2023 | Hounslow |
| 89 Hampton Road East | Good, published 24 Feb 2025 | Hounslow |
| 89a Hampton Road East | Good, published 22 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Hounslow |
| Aldeburgh House | Good, published 6 Dec 2017rating 3+ yrs old | Essex |
| Bannigans | Requires improvement, published 24 Jan 2024 | North Northamptonshire |
| Beach Road | Good, published 8 Jun 2026 | West Sussex |
| Beech Court | Good, published 12 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Hampshire |
…and 44 more.
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 registered for care without 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.
- Netherfieldabout 0.5 miles · Kettering · 4 bedsNot yet rated
- Orchard House Residential Care Homeabout 0.6 miles · Kettering · 33 bedsGood, published 17 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Burton Oaksabout 1 mile · Kettering · 28 bedsGood, published 4 Feb 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Consensus Support Services Limited - 121 Station Roadabout 1 mile · Kettering · 11 bedsGood, published 14 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-306308347
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.