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Applecroft Care Home, Dover — care home record & Homesplace Grade · Homesplace

Care homes/Kentlocal authority/Dovertown · city/Applecroft Care Home

Applecroft Care Home

Nursing homes · 75 beds · Sanctuary Close, River, Dover CT17 0ER

✓ Verified record · data of 14 June 2026Part of Abbey HealthcareUnclaimed · auto generated from official sources

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Homesplace Grade · stable

Analysed record · answered from official sources

Is Applecroft Care Home any good?

On the evidence, Applecroft Care Home has a record with one watch point. It was rated Good at its latest inspection (22 Dec 2025). The watch point: safe is rated requires improvement at the current inspection. Worth asking about on a visit.

CQC inspection · 22 Dec 2025CQC register · manager history

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Safe is rated Requires improvement at the current inspection.

Safe is one of the two most heavily weighted key questions in the Homesplace Grade. Rated at the inspection published 22 December 2025.

The evidence

Official CQC rating

published 22 Dec 2025

Goodoverall

Safe: ● Requires improvement
Effective: ● Good
Caring: ● Good
Responsive: ● Good
Well led: ● Good

Rating trajectory

all inspections on record

Rated Good at every inspection on record.

Good

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Dec 2025

Leadership stability

No manager changes in five years. Stable leadership supports quality, which is why we track it.

S. Potts · current registered manager
since May 2011 · 15 yrs

Enforcement and breaches

✓No enforcement action on record

Checked against the CQC enforcement register · 14 June 2026

Capacity and specialisms

75 beds
Nursing homes
Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Dementia

CQC register · 14 June 2026

Financial stability

operating company

Active· accounts up to date

Company: APPLECROFT CARE HOME LTD · 04848475
Incorporated: 28 July 2003
Last accounts: made up to 31 December 2024 · medium
Next accounts due: Sep 2026
Charges (secured debt): 1 outstanding · Hilco Real Estate Finance UK LTD · 7 satisfied

No financial-distress signals on the register: the operating company is active, with accounts and confirmation statement filed on time and no insolvency history.

Companies House · 14 June 2026shown for context · not part of the Homesplace Grade