Residential care is offered in 20 comfortable en-suite rooms, most on the ground floor and overlooking pleasant communal gardens. We have a comfortable lounge and dining room, plus a room where we enjoy visits from entertainers and musicians as well as regular activities.

This is our residents’ home, to which we invite visits from the appropriate medical teams, hairdresser, chiropodist, aromatherapist etc. It is specially equipped; for example, our bathrooms have new lifting baths, so that staff can care for residents safely and conveniently.

For our staff, care is about doing more than just what’s necessary. Whilst they are on hand at all times of day and night to help with everyday tasks, they are also happy to take time to sit and chat with residents, which helps to promote companionship and engender that family atmosphere we’re so proud of.

Visitors are welcome at all appropriate times and we have comfortable corners of the house and gardens, where you can have more privacy if you wish.

Our small Dementia Unit, upgraded in 2014, is a self-contained wing and provides a greater degree of help and security for those suffering from the effects of memory loss. Quality of care is really important and our well trained staff are both sensitive and patient. Our aim is to give those with dementia real quality of life.

Residents in this wing and its adjoining garden are protected from wandering by keypad security, so families can be reassured that their relatives are properly looked after at all times in a caring and intensively supported location.

Rooms are all provided with toilet and washing facilities and residents are encouraged to bring some of their own belongings to promote familiarity and a sense of comfort and security. There is ample lounge and dining room space so visits can take place with greater privacy.

Some activities in the Dementia unit are tailored to their more specific and individual needs, but other organised activities and outings are designed to be appropriate for Dementia care residents to be included if they wish.

Our aim is to provide “home cooking on a grand scale”. Particular emphasis is placed on the quality of meals so wherever possible we use fresh ingredients and local suppliers. This enables our experienced kitchen team to provide a choice of three healthy, well-balanced meals each day, not forgetting the home baking.

We always provide variety and our permanent staff soon learn the likes and dislikes of residents so they get the food and drink they like, whether it’s a glass of sherry before lunch or “I don’t like fish”.

Each wing has its own dining room with tables nicely laid, usually for four, so mealtimes are also an important part of the social activity of the day.

The importance we place on catering is reflected in our recent project to completely refurbish our kitchen helped by a substantial grant from local charity, the Wilton Trust.