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Purley Gardens Care Home

21-27 Russell Hill Road, Purley CR8 2LF — 119 beds, run by Willowbrook Healthcare Limited under the Avery brand.

Nursing care Dementia care 119 beds Registered 3.2 years

We do not yet have Croydon Council’s published rates, so we are not going to guess what this home costs.

Other sites will show you a national average here. It would be a number with nothing behind it, and it would not help you negotiate. We have asked Croydon Council for its 2026/27 rates under the Freedom of Information Act, and this section fills in when they answer.

Until then, the surest way to find out is to ask the home directly what it charges today — and whether that figure is due to rise in April.

How the inspectors rated it

Good

The Care Quality Commission rated Purley Gardens Care Home Good when it last published an assessment, in July 2018.

Among the least current in EnglandThe national middle is 4.3 years. How we measure this.

That was 8.1 years ago. Managers move on, owners sell up, staff turn over. A rating this old describes the home as it was in 2018 — not as it is this month. Three questions worth asking on the phone: who is the manager now, how long have they been in post, and how many of the care staff have been there more than a year?
Safe — Good Effective — Good Caring — Good Responsive — Good Well-led — Good

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

What the same operator runs elsewhere

Willowbrook Healthcare Limited runs 27 care homes for older people in England. Of the 25 carrying a published CQC rating, 21 are rated Good or Outstanding, 4 require improvement.

A pattern across an operator’s homes tells you something a single inspection cannot. It is a fair question to put to the manager: what has changed across the group since those inspections?

The paperwork, plainly

Beds registered
119
Typical size in Croydon
35 beds
Registered with the CQC
3.2 years
Manager on the register
*
Who owns it
Willowbrook Healthcare Limited
Companies House
6655208

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

Distances are straight-line from the registered address — useful for working out who could visit easily, which matters more than most things on this page.

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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 Purley Gardens Care 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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Would the council pay towards this?

Whether you pay all of it, some of it or none of it turns on savings, income and whether a property would be left empty. Our calculator applies the 2026/27 means test and tells you the weekly figure. See also how council funding works and what happens when the money runs out.

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Where to get advice

We publish prices and register data, not advice. For the decisions that follow, these are free and impartial.

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

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