Care home · Thurnby
The Lodge Residential Home
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- Grange Lane, Thurnby, LE7 9PH
- Run by
- The Lodge Thurnby Ltd
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 32 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- No, residential care only (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Garden
- Garden for residents (as stated on thelodgethurnby.co.uk)
- En-suite rooms
- All rooms en-suite (as stated on thelodgethurnby.co.uk)
- Registered with CQC
- November 2010 (15 years)
- Registered manager
- Ana Cristina Henriques Andrade
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2003 (23 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 04714441)
- Last CQC check
- 3 Jul 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,160–£1,410 a week for residential care (dementia). Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
Registered activities: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
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See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-116429123
An overview of The Lodge Residential Home
Registered with CQC as a residential care home, The Lodge Residential Home is based in Thurnby, run by The Lodge Thurnby Ltd. It supports adults of all ages, with registered specialisms in dementia, physical disabilities and sight or hearing loss.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (July 2025). It is one of 15 CQC-registered care homes in and around Oadby; 11 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
The five key questions
- Safe69% score122 of 151 in Leicestershire
- Effective75% score132 of 151 in Leicestershire
- Caring70% score137 of 151 in Leicestershire
- Responsive75% score134 of 151 in Leicestershire
- Well-led75% score116 of 151 in Leicestershire
From CQC's latest report, published 3 July 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Leicestershire share it.
Ownership and company checks
The Lodge Residential Home is run by The Lodge Thurnby Ltd (company 04714441), incorporated in 2003, 7 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 residential care for older and disabled people.
What it may cost
We estimate The Lodge Residential Home at £1,160–£1,410 a week for residential care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £60k–£73k.
Get the extras in writing: items such as hairdressing and outings are usually charged on top.
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The local picture
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 21 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Thurnby Fields, under 0.5 miles away.
It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: sight or hearing loss (7 of the nearest 25).
4 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Thurnby & Houghton ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (7 min), a pharmacy (8 min), a shop (6 min), a park (6 min), a café (7 min) and a bus stop (3 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
How the scores break down
CQC now scores each area it inspects from 1 to 4 against a set of "quality statements", and turns those into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, The Lodge Residential Home scores 73%.
Safe 69%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing2 · Some shortfalls
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation2 · Some shortfalls
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 70%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs2 · Some shortfalls
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement3 · Good
Responsive 75%
- 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 future3 · Good
Well-led 75%
- Shared direction and culture3 · Good
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion3 · Good
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
How to read the numbers: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. Published by CQC, assessed 9 May 2025, published 3 July 2025 under the Open Government Licence; a blank score means the statement was carried over unchanged.
How its rating has changed
- Jul 2015
- Jul 2016
- Nov 2017
- Sep 2018
- Nov 2018
- Jul 2019
- Mar 2022
- Jul 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Inspection reports to read
- CQC inspection report 3 March 2022
- CQC inspection report 16 July 2019
- CQC inspection report 13 November 2018
- CQC inspection report 15 September 2018
- CQC inspection report 8 November 2017
- CQC inspection report 29 July 2016
Map and area details
- Ward
- Thurnby & Houghton
- Parliamentary constituency
- Rutland and Stamford
- NHS area (integrated care board)
- NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban, nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in LE7 (14)
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Close by
- Bus stop 250 m (3 min walk) · 13 stops within 600 m
- GP surgery Doctors Surgery, 530 m (7 min walk)
- Pharmacy R. Glenton & Son Chemists, 600 m (8 min walk)
- Shop Co-op Food, 440 m (6 min walk)
- Park Sedgebrook Road Open Space, 500 m (6 min walk)
- Café Cafe Blends Coffee Bar, 570 m (7 min walk)
- Place of worship St Luke's, 240 m (3 min walk)
- Library Thurnby Lodge Library, 880 m (11 min walk)
From OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), measured in a straight line, so allow extra for the actual route on foot.
Area details from ONS and NHS postcode data via postcodes.io (Open Government Licence).
How long it has been running
The Lodge Residential Home has been registered with CQC since November 2010, about 15 years.
CQC has published 8 overall ratings for it (2015–2025), starting at Requires improvement; it has gone up 2 and down 2 times, and is now Good.
Reports on record: 6, with the most recent dated 3 March 2022.
What the ratings tell you
The Lodge Residential Home has an even profile: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led are each rated Good.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 115 of the 150 other care homes in Leicestershire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Effective at 75% and its lowest is Safe at 69%, averaging 73% overall.
The inspection, summarised
- The inspection was prompted by a review of information we held about the provider.
- Systems and processes were in place to support an inclusive and positive culture of learning and improvement.
- Leaders worked with people, their relatives, staff and external partners to support in the delivery of safe care and good outcomes for people.
- A relative told us, “I'm very happy with the staff and how they’ve looked after [person], they know them well, and they’ve fitted in very well here.” People and relatives were positive about the leadership and management of the service.
Inspected 3 February 2022; report published 3 March 2022. From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Registered specialisms
Taken from its CQC registration.
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How The Lodge Residential Home compares
- Rated Good. Across Leicestershire, 81% of the 151 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 3 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (July 2025) is more recent than 77% of care home ratings in Leicestershire.
- With 32 beds it is larger than 54% of care homes in Leicestershire, where the typical home has 30.
- Registered with CQC in 2010: it has been registered longer than 85% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 5 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Leicestershire lists 4.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered care homes in Leicestershire (Oct 2026).
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Frequently asked about The Lodge Residential Home
- What type of care does The Lodge Residential Home provide?
- Registration for The Lodge Residential Home covers: residential homes. Check which of these it offers today.
- Is The Lodge Residential Home a registered provider?
- The Lodge Residential Home is on the CQC register as a care home (ID 1-116429123) and was rated Good overall in July 2025.
- Where is The Lodge Residential Home based?
- It is at Grange Lane, Thurnby, LE7 9PH.
- When was The Lodge Residential Home last inspected?
- The latest rating is dated 3 July 2025, 1 year ago; ask whether there have been changes since.
- Is The Lodge Residential Home registered for dementia care?
- Yes. Dementia is one of the specialisms on its CQC registration. Ask how many carers or staff have dementia training.
- Who runs The Lodge Residential Home?
- The Lodge Residential Home is run by The Lodge Thurnby Ltd, the registered provider on the CQC register.
- How many residents can The Lodge Residential Home take?
- The Lodge Residential Home can take up to 32 residents. Ask what is free now and about en-suite rooms.
- How is The Lodge Residential Home rated for safety and leadership?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led are the sections most worth your time.
- How much does The Lodge Residential Home charge?
- The Lodge Residential Home's prices aren't on our site yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,250 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in East Midlands). Ask for a written quote that includes weekend and bank holiday rates.
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