Blackbrook House
Gun Hill, Colchester, CO7 6HP · Essex · East of England
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: Blackbrook House, Cavendish Healthcare (UK) Ltd, deregistered 10 Feb 2017; Blackbrook House, Carefore Homes Limited, deregistered 11 Mar 2015.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Safe is Requires improvement (18 Jan 2020), the rating is 6 years old, and 19 of this operator's 130 rated services are below Good.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 18 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 6 years old — published 18 Jan 2020, 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 Anchor Hanover Group's 130 rated services, 19 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
- 55
- Registered with CQC
- 6 Feb 2017
- Run by
- Anchor Hanover Group
- Part of
- Anchor · 132 services
- Phone
- 01206321150
- Website
- www.anchor.org.uk
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 | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 18 Jan 2020 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 18 Jan 2020 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 18 Jan 2020 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 18 Jan 2020 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 18 Jan 2020 |
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 — 131 other locations
Other active services registered to Anchor Hanover Group. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Anchor Integrated Care & Housing Village - Denham Garden Village | Good, published 21 Aug 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Buckinghamshire |
| Anchor Trust (The Laureates) | Good, published 26 Mar 2026 | Leeds |
| Ashcroft | Good, published 12 Sep 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Bradford |
| Augusta Court | Good, published 4 Oct 2018rating 3+ yrs old | West Sussex |
| Austin Place | Good, published 11 May 2026 | Surrey |
| Beech Hall | Outstanding, published 26 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Leeds |
| Beechfield Lodge | Good, published 22 Dec 2023 | Salford |
| Berkeley Court | Good, published 16 Jul 2025 | Leeds |
| Bethune Court | Good, published 3 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old | East Sussex |
| Bilton Court | Good, published 20 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old | North Northamptonshire |
| Birkenhead Court | Good, published 12 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Wirral |
| Bishopstoke Park | Requires improvement, published 8 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Hampshire |
…and 119 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.
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- 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.
- The Bungalowabout 3.2 miles · Colchester · 6 bedsGood, published 10 Jun 2025
- Welshwood Manorabout 4.1 miles · Colchester · 34 bedsRequires improvement, published 11 Jul 2026
- Duncannonsabout 4.2 miles · Colchester · 6 bedsNot yet rated
- Mistley Manorabout 4.2 miles · Manningtree · 84 bedsGood, published 18 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-3306579618
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.