Care home · Walton On The Naze
Asher House
Typical fee here £1,520–£1,850 a week Estimate
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- Third Avenue, Walton On The Naze, CO14 8JU
- Run by
- Elysium Healthcare No. 4 Limited (13 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 6 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- Yes, registered as a nursing home (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Not listed as a specialism with CQC; ask the provider
- Registered with CQC
- May 2022 (4 years)
- Part of
- Elysium Healthcare
- Registered manager
- Almas Abigail Edwards
- Company check
- Active, trading since 1996 (30 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 03257732)
- Last CQC check
- Not listed
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,520–£1,850 a week for nursing care. Estimate only, from published local rates. How we estimate
Registered to provide: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-13168953106
About this home
Asher House in Walton On The Naze is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a nursing home, run by Elysium Healthcare No. 4 Limited. The service is registered to support adults under 65 and lists learning disabilities among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (October 2026). It is one of 7 CQC-registered care homes in and around Walton-on-the-Naze; 5 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Reading Asher House's CQC ratings
CQC rated every one of the five key questions Good here, so there is no weak spot in the published ratings.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 269 of the 363 other care homes in Essex that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Well-led at 86% and its lowest is Responsive at 71%, averaging 77% overall.
Around Walton On The Naze
There are 13 other care homes within 3 miles, 11 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Delamer House, under 0.5 miles away.
Its rating is more recent than any of the 24 nearest rated care homes.
It sits in Walton ward, classed by ONS as urban (further from a major town or city), among the 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Essex ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a shop (5 min), a café (3 min) and a bus stop (2 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led
- Safe72% score290 of 364 in Essex
- Effective75% score326 of 364 in Essex
- Caring80% score340 of 364 in Essex
- Responsive71% score322 of 364 in Essex
- Well-led86% score270 of 364 in Essex
CQC key question ratings, published 29 October 2026. Under each rating: how many care homes in Essex share it.
Likely fees
We estimate Asher House at £1,520–£1,850 a week for nursing care, based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £79k–£96k.
Where a resident needs nursing, the NHS pays part of the fee straight to the home as NHS-funded nursing care, regardless of who pays the rest.
Essex Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.
Asher House over the years
CQC registration dates from May 2022, so the service has been operating for around 4 years under its current registration.
There is a single overall rating on record, Good (October 2026).
The registered provider
Asher House is run by Elysium Healthcare No. 4 Limited (company 03257732), incorporated in 1996, 25 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is other human health activities.
Elysium Healthcare No. 4 Limited runs 13 CQC-registered services across 11 council areas; 11 of the 12 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (92%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
It trades under the Elysium Healthcare brand, which covers 46 services run by 11 registered providers.
Specialisms
Registration details from CQC.
What CQC's inspectors reported
- Asher House provides support to autistic people and those with a learning disability and a range of associated mental health needs.
- The service has been designed to support people with ongoing complex needs who are stepping down from hospital or to avoid an inappropriate admission to hospital.
- The maximum number of people who can live at the service is 6.
- One person told us, “Happy here, staff are nice and good to me”.
Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
CQC's scores in detail
Each area below is made up of several quality statements, each scored 1 to 4 by CQC; the percentage combines those scores for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Asher House scores 77%.
Safe 72%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments2 · Some shortfalls
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation3 · Good
Effective 75%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment3 · Good
- How staff, teams and services work together3 · Good
- Supporting people to live healthier lives3 · Good
- Monitoring and improving outcomes3 · Good
- Consent to care and treatment3 · Good
Caring 80%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs3 · Good
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement4 · Exceptional
Responsive 71%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity3 · Good
- Providing Information3 · Good
- Listening to and involving people3 · Good
- Equity in access3 · Good
- Equity in experiences and outcomes3 · Good
- Planning for the future2 · Some shortfalls
Well-led 86%
- Shared direction and culture4 · Exceptional
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up4 · Exceptional
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion4 · Exceptional
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
Scale: 1 (significant shortfalls) to 4 (exceptional). From CQC, assessed 7 September 2026, published 29 October 2026, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
Food hygiene
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 20 March 2026 by Tendring. Meals matter in a care home: ask to see a menu and whether residents can choose.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Asher House"). Open Government Licence.
Finding it
- Ward
- Walton
- Council
- Essex County Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Clacton
- NHS area (integrated care board)
- NHS Essex Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban (further from a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in CO14 (8)
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Within walking distance
- Bus stop 180 m (2 min walk) · 6 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Walton-on-the-Naze, 1.9 km
- GP surgery 1.4 km (17 min walk)
- Shop Naze Park Premier, 410 m (5 min walk)
- Café Hipkins Tea Rooms, 250 m (3 min walk)
- Place of worship Walton Baptist Church, 460 m (6 min walk)
- Library Walton Library, 1.5 km (18 min walk)
Nearest of each type, measured in a straight line using OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). If a resident uses a wheelchair or frame, check the route itself.
Local area facts: ONS and NHS geography via postcodes.io, Open Government Licence.
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How Asher House compares
- Rated Good. Across Essex, 84% of the 363 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 7 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (October 2026) is more recent than 100% of care home ratings in Essex.
- With 6 beds it is smaller than 76% of care homes in Essex, where the typical home has 22.
- Registered with CQC in 2022: it has been registered longer than 20% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 2 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Essex lists 3.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered care homes in Essex (Oct 2026).
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Quick answers about Asher House
- Does Asher House support people with dementia?
- Dementia is not listed among the specialisms on its CQC registration. Ask the provider directly if this matters to you.
- When was Asher House last inspected?
- CQC published the current rating on 29 October 2026. Older ratings are common, so ask about changes since.
- Where is Asher House?
- It is at Third Avenue, Walton On The Naze, CO14 8JU.
- Is Asher House a registered provider?
- Registered, yes: location 1-13168953106 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a care home and was rated Good overall in October 2026.
- What type of care does Asher House provide?
- Registration for Asher House covers: nursing homes. Check which of these it offers today.
- What are Asher House's fees?
- Asher House's prices aren't on our site yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,455 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in East of England). Ask for written prices covering weekends, bank holidays and any travel or set-up charges.
- How is Asher House rated for safety and leadership?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
- How big is Asher House?
- Asher House is registered for up to 6 residents. Ask about current vacancies and whether rooms have en-suite facilities.
- Who is the registered provider for Asher House?
- On CQC's register the provider is Elysium Healthcare No. 4 Limited.
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