Care home · Hoylake
The Old Garden Care Home
Typical fee here £1,420–£1,730 a week Estimate
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- 4 Meols Drive, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 4AQ
- Run by
- The Old Garden Care Ltd
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 40 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- Yes, registered as a nursing home (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- En-suite rooms
- En-suite rooms available (as stated on theoldgardencare.com)
- Registered with CQC
- August 2022 (4 years)
- Registered manager
- Jessica Rose Hart
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2016 (10 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 09943873)
- Last CQC check
- 30 Oct 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,420–£1,730 a week for nursing care (dementia). An estimate based on local published fees. Ask for a written quote. How we estimate
Registered activities: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-13589903156
Introducing The Old Garden Care Home
The Old Garden Care Home in Hoylake is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a nursing home, run by The Old Garden Care Ltd. The service is registered to support older people and lists dementia, physical disabilities and sight or hearing loss among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (October 2025). It is one of 9 CQC-registered care homes in and around Hoylake; 6 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Choice nearby
There are 14 other care homes within 3 miles, 6 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Meols Drive Care Home with Nursing, under 0.5 miles away.
It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: physical disabilities (6 of the nearest 25); sight or hearing loss (4 of the nearest 25).
5 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Hoylake and Meols 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 Cheshire and Merseyside ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a pharmacy (5 min), a shop (3 min), a park (8 min), a café (2 min), a bus stop (3 min) and a railway station (3 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Percentage scores by area
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 Old Garden Care Home scores 74%.
Safe 75%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation3 · Good
Effective 71%
- 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 treatment2 · Some shortfalls
Caring 75%
- 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 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
4 means exceptional and 1 means significant shortfalls (3 good, 2 some shortfalls). CQC data, assessed 26 August 2025, published 30 October 2025, Open Government Licence. Where no score shows, that statement wasn't part of this assessment and its earlier result still counts.
Past CQC ratings
- Sep 2019
- Oct 2021
- Oct 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first.
Kitchen hygiene rating
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 7 August 2026 by Wirral. On a visit, ask to see this week's menu and how residents choose what they eat.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "The Old Garden"). Open Government Licence.
Map and area details
- Ward
- Hoylake and Meols
- Council
- Wirral Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Wirral West
- NHS planning area
- NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
- ONS area type
- Urban (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in CH47 (10)
Larger map · Plan a journey · Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors
Close by
- Bus stop 210 m (3 min walk) · 6 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Hoylake, 240 m (3 min walk)
- Pharmacy Well Pharmacy, 410 m (5 min walk)
- Shop Newsmag Extra, 280 m (3 min walk)
- Park 610 m (8 min walk)
- Café Ground, 180 m (2 min walk)
- Place of worship Church of Christ Scientist, 90 m (1 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.
Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence.
Ratings for safety, care and leadership
- Safe75% score65 of 102 in Wirral
- Effective71% score87 of 102 in Wirral
- Caring75% score90 of 102 in Wirral
- Responsive75% score88 of 102 in Wirral
- Well-led75% score70 of 102 in Wirral
Source: CQC, published 30 October 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Wirral share it.
Costs to expect
We estimate The Old Garden Care Home at £1,420–£1,730 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £74k–£90k.
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.
With savings below £23,250, Wirral Council may contribute once it has carried out a free needs assessment.
Strengths and weak spots in the ratings
The Old Garden Care 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 69 of the 101 other care homes in Wirral that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Effective at 71%, averaging 74% overall.
Registered specialisms
Specialisms as registered with CQC.
Track record
CQC registration dates from August 2022, so the service has been operating for around 4 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2019–2025), starting at Good and staying Good every time.
Who runs it
The Old Garden Care Home is run by The Old Garden Care Ltd (company 09943873), incorporated in 2016, 6 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 2 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is nursing care.
The inspection, summarised
- The inspection was prompted in part by notification of an incident following which a person using the service sustained a serious injury.
- The environment was clean, well-maintained, and thoughtfully designed to support peoples' needs, including dementia-friendly features and accessible facilities such as a therapy pool and sensory garden.
- Staff were observed to be kind, respectful, and attentive, with positive relationships evident between them and the people they supported.
- One person told us, “Yes I feel safe here and I’m very comfortable.
Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
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Compared with other care homes locally
- Rated Good. Across Wirral, 71% of the 102 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 0 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (October 2025) is more recent than 72% of care home ratings in Wirral.
- With 40 beds it is larger than 66% of care homes in Wirral, where the typical home has 29.
- Registered with CQC in 2022: it has been registered longer than 19% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 4 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Wirral lists 3.
Based on the CQC register for Wirral as at Oct 2026.
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Frequently asked about The Old Garden Care Home
- Who runs The Old Garden Care Home?
- The Old Garden Care Ltd is the registered provider for The Old Garden Care Home.
- How many beds does The Old Garden Care Home have?
- CQC capacity for The Old Garden Care Home: 40 beds. Ask about current availability and room facilities.
- How is The Old Garden Care Home rated for safety and leadership?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Start with Safe and Well-led when reading the report.
- How much does care from The Old Garden Care Home cost?
- We don't have published prices from The Old Garden Care Home yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,205 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in North West). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- What type of care does The Old Garden Care Home provide?
- CQC lists The Old Garden Care Home under: nursing homes. Check which of these it is actively providing now.
- Is The Old Garden Care Home registered with CQC?
- Yes: CQC lists it as a care home under location ID 1-13589903156 and was rated Good overall in October 2025.
- What is The Old Garden Care Home's address?
- It is at 4 Meols Drive, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 4AQ.
- When did CQC last rate The Old Garden Care Home?
- Its current CQC rating dates from 30 October 2025, 1 year ago. Ratings can be several years old; ask what has changed since, such as a new manager.
- Can The Old Garden Care Home care for someone with dementia?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
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