Nursing home · North Northamptonshire

Elegance Nursing Home

32 Denford Road, Ringstead, Kettering, NN14 4DF

Requires improvement Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement Rated 4 years ago No registered manager New owner since October 2025

CQC rating

Requires improvement
Published 18 January 2022 Rated 4 years ago ?
  • SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
  • EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Requires improvement
  • CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Requires improvement
  • ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Requires improvement
  • Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Requires improvement

CQC's register shows no registered manager for this home. Every care home must have one. The home may be recruiting, or a new manager may be applying to CQC. ?

The home changed owner in October 2025. Its rating dates from before the change. ?

This rating was carried over from the home's previous registration, usually after a change of owner. ?

Earlier ratings ?

  • March 2020Inspected, no new rating

The home changed owner or registration. Earlier ratings are on the CQC website: previous registration ↗.

Read the full report on the CQC website ↗

How it compares in North Northamptonshire

Elegance Nursing Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 19 other homes in North Northamptonshire. 80% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).

  • Outstanding 7 (6%)
  • Good, with Outstanding areas 2 (2%)
  • Good 63 (58%)
  • Good, with an area to improve 11 (10%)
  • Requires improvement 20 (19%)
  • Inadequate 1 (1%)
  • Not yet rated 4 (4%)

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Care homes nearby

  • Avens Limited
    Kettering, North Northamptonshire · NN14 4DF · Residential care home · 14 bedsunder 0.1 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated this month
  • Raunds Lodge Nursing Home
    Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire · NN9 6EY · Nursing home · 33 beds2.5 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 4 years ago
  • The Ferns
    Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire · NN9 6ET · Residential care home · 10 beds2.6 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 6 years ago
  • Ashfield House - Raunds
    Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire · NN9 6DX · Residential care home · 40 beds2.8 km
    Requires improvement S: Requires improvementE: Requires improvementC: GoodR: GoodW: Requires improvement Rated this month
  • Kingswood House
    Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire · NN9 6NH · Residential care home · 26 beds2.8 km
    Requires improvement S: Requires improvementE: Requires improvementC: Requires improvementR: Requires improvementW: Requires improvement Rated 4 months ago
  • Jean Elizabeth Residential Care Ltd
    Kettering, North Northamptonshire · NN14 4HE · Residential care home · 10 beds3.0 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 6 years ago

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Elegance Nursing Home in brief

Elegance Nursing Home is one of 108 care homes in North Northamptonshire: a 30-bed nursing home in Kettering, run by Mr Pratheesh Radhakrishnan Nair. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia and people with a physical disability.

Avens Limited, 0.0 km away, is the closest home rated Good. Mr Pratheesh Radhakrishnan Nair has run the home since October 2025, when it changed owner. Across North Northamptonshire, 80% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. There is no registered manager on CQC's register right now.

Its CQC rating, from January 2022, is Requires improvement across the board: overall and for every key question. The rating was carried over from a previous registration, which usually happens when a home changes owner.