Residential care home · Lowestoft

Stradbroke Court

Green Drive, Lowestoft NR33 7JS — 43 beds, run by Aps Care Ltd.

Dementia care 43 beds Registered 10.9 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 Stradbroke Court 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 Stradbroke Court Requires improvement when it last published an assessment, in December 2024.

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

This one is recent — 1.6 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 — Requires improvement Caring — Requires improvement Responsive — Requires improvement Well-led — Requires improvement

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

What the same operator runs elsewhere

Aps Care Ltd runs 2 care homes for older people in England. Of the 2 carrying a published CQC rating, 0 are rated Good or Outstanding, 1 require improvement, and 1 are rated Inadequate.

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?

Florence HouseNorfolkInadequate

The paperwork, plainly

Beds registered: 43
Typical size in Suffolk: 39 beds
Registered with the CQC: 10.9 years
Manager on the register: Button, Davina
Who owns it: Aps Care Ltd
Companies House: 04423576

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.

Squirrel Lodge 0.4 miles · 24 beds Good Estherene House 0.5 miles · 36 beds Requires improvement Kirkley Manor 0.5 miles · 71 beds Good Eastview Residential Home 0.6 miles · 14 beds Good Imber House 0.6 miles · 7 beds Good

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

No home within 10 miles currently holds a Good or Outstanding rating published in the last two years. That says something about how thinly inspected this area is, not necessarily about the homes.

Ask them what a room costs today

Published fees go stale within months. Tell us what care is needed and we will ask Stradbroke Court 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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