Kings Court Care Home
14 Market Place, Barnard Castle, DL12 8ND · County Durham · North East
CQC holds more than one live registration at this address
That usually means a service is changing hands. Each registration carries its own published rating — this page’s is above, the other registration’s is below. Ratings do not transfer between registrations; check both before you judge the home.
- Kings Court Care Home — Care UK Care Services LimitedGood, published 28 Apr 2026
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but 6 of this operator's 101 rated homes are below Good.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd's 101 rated homes, 6 are below Good — not this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 37
- Registered with CQC
- 19 Oct 2011
- Run by
- Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd
- Part of
- Welltower · 598 services
- Phone
- 01833690333
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 | Good | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Effective | Good | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Caring | Good | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Responsive | Good | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Well-led | Good | 28 Apr 2026 |
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 — 105 other locations
Other active services registered to Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Abney Court | Good, published 24 May 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Stockport |
| Amberley Lodge - Purley | Outstanding, published 10 May 2024 | Croydon |
| Ambleside | Good, published 12 Aug 2026 | Warwickshire |
| Ancasta Grove | Good, published 25 Mar 2026 | Hampshire |
| Appleby House | Outstanding, published 25 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Surrey |
| Armstrong House | Good, published 30 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Gateshead |
| Asterbury Place | Outstanding, published 4 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
| Ayton House | Not yet rated | West Sussex |
| Bickerton House | Good, published 5 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Bracknell Forest |
| Bowes House | Good, published 14 Aug 2024 | East Sussex |
| Britten Court | Good, published 10 Aug 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
| Broadwater Lodge | Outstanding, published 9 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Surrey |
…and 93 more. See the full group view.
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?
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- 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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See a sample and order →Similar services nearby
Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes registered for care without nursing within 10 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.
- Beaconsfield Courtabout 0.3 miles · Barnard Castle · 32 bedsGood, published 13 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- The Manor House Barnard Castleabout 0.4 miles · Barnard Castle · 76 bedsGood, published 28 Jan 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Bowe's Court Care Homeabout 8.5 miles · Bishop Auckland · 23 bedsGood, published 14 Jul 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Lyons Court Care Homeabout 8.5 miles · Bishop Auckland · 50 bedsGood, published 23 Jun 2025
See everything registered for these needs in Barnard Castle →
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-319264671
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.