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Ashmore Nursing Home

Barningham Road, Bury St Edmunds IP31 2AD — 36 beds, run by Ashmore Nursing Home Limited.

Nursing care 36 beds Registered 15.5 years

Suffolk Council pays £912 a week for a residential place here. A family paying for itself is almost always quoted more than that, for the same room.

Council, residential£912per week, 2025/26
What this home chargesAsk themnot published anywhere

Source: Suffolk County Council, Standard Care Purchase Rates 2025-26, effective 2025/26; we last checked it on 11 August 2026. We do not print an estimate of what Ashmore Nursing Home charges a self-funding family, because no such figure has been published and we will not invent one. The council rate is the firm number to negotiate against.

How the inspectors rated it

Requires improvement

The Care Quality Commission rated Ashmore Nursing Home Requires improvement when it last published an assessment, in February 2025.

Inspected within the last two yearsThe national middle is 4.3 years. How we measure this.

This one is recent — 1.5 years old, so it is a fair picture of the home as it is now. Still worth asking whether the manager has changed since.
Safe — Requires improvement Effective — Good Caring — Good Responsive — Good Well-led — Requires improvement

Read the full CQC report · what these ratings mean · register retrieved 4 August 2026

The paperwork, plainly

Beds registered
36
Typical size in Suffolk
39 beds
Registered with the CQC
15.5 years
Manager on the register
Groom, Deborah
Who owns it
Ashmore Nursing Home Limited
Companies House
04358423

Every line comes from the CQC register, not from the home. If something is wrong, tell us and we will check it against the register.

Other homes close by

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Nearby homes rated Good or better, inspected in the last two years

The list above is by distance alone. This one keeps only homes whose rating is both good and recent — the two things a rating needs to be worth much.

Ask them what a room costs today

Published fees go stale within months. Tell us what care is needed and we will ask Ashmore Nursing Home directly, then send you the reply. We are paid nothing if you move in, so we have no reason to push you here or anywhere else.

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Where to get advice

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Age UK — paying for a care home · MoneyHelper · Care Quality Commission · our guides to costs and funding

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