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Lavender Fields - Care Home with Nursing
Indicative figure · Public registers and recorded sales · Not a valuation
Built from the price per bed of comparable freehold sales nearby, applied to this home’s registered beds. Range not published for this home — see Questions.
this home · other care homes in it · its catchment
The catchment
Every neighbourhood within 10 miles of the home, weighted by distance — a neighbourhood's weight halves every 2.25 miles. Half of the people it counts live within 6.3 miles of this home, four in five within 7.8.
- People in the catchment
- 363,221
- Aged 65 and over
- 30,284 · 8%, 52% below the national average
- Aged 85 and over
- 3,970 · 52% below the national average
- Likely to self-fund care
- 44% · 18% above the national average
- Median house price
- £394,537
- Other care homes in the catchment
- 67 · 2,493 beds
- Beds per 100 people aged 65+
- 8.2 · 77% above the national average
- Nearest other care home
- 0 m
The local market
Indicative figures of the 67 other care homes in the catchment, as shown on their own pages.
- Lower quartile
- £0.7m
- Median
- £1.3m
- Upper quartile
- £4.8m
This home sits below the local median.
Who owns it
- Freehold
- Operator owns the freehold
- Registered proprietor
- LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY
- Operator
- Group
- Registered provider
- LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY · 34 homes
The company running the home also holds the title. The £ figure on this page is for this building alone; LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY runs 34 homes and each has its own page.
The property record
- Address
- No 1 Lavender Fields, Lucas Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 2JB
- Registered beds
- 10
- Registered for
- Adults over 65 · Adults under 65 · Learning disabilities · Physical disabilities
- Service quality
- Requires improvement · 26 Mar 2022
- Previously
- Good · 16 Nov 2018 · declined
- Last recorded sale
- —
- Sale date
- 19 Feb 2002
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Title
- HD215051
The local care workforce
The care workforce of the area this home hires from — not this home’s own staff.
- Vacancy rate
- 7.6% · 68% above the national rate
- Turnover
- 31.4% · 5% above the national rate
- Care worker pay
- £13.70/hr · in line with the national rate
- Drawn from beyond Hertfordshire
- 93.2%
A rating that has slipped is the single most common trigger for a sale.
The comparable sales
- Recorded sales used
- 12
- Match
- Any type, within 50% on beds, inside 75 miles
- Nearest · farthest
- 11.5 km · 53.8 km
- Sold between
- 7 Apr 2020 and 12 Aug 2025
Portfolio deals, leasehold premiums and transfers below £5,000 a bed are excluded — they are not evidence of what a home is worth.
Population and ages from the 2021 Census by neighbourhood, weighted by drive time on a decay fitted to real road isochrones; self-funding propensity raked to ONS local-authority estimates. A reading of the market — not a forecast of this home's occupancy.
Nearby: Symonds House - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities · Foxholes Care Home · Westbourne Care Home · Elmside · 17 Walsworth Road
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Built from public registers and recorded property sales. Not a valuation, not an offer, not advice.
Questions
What is a C’Estimate?
A C’Estimate is an indicative market value for a care home. It is produced by a proprietary model built on the relevant public record: recorded property sales, the regulators’ registers, and land-registry ownership. It is not a valuation and does not replace one: a care home is trade-related property, and its worth depends on occupancy, fee rates and payer mix, which the public record does not hold.
How is it calculated?
The model is proprietary. Every figure is built from the public record, under open licences — nothing is bought from anyone. It is drawn from care home sales actually recorded and applied to the characteristics of each home — its type, its size and where it is. Each home is matched to its own title, so the figure is for the building, never for the company that runs it.
Why is a range not always shown?
A range is shown only when it rests on the observed spread of comparable sales and that spread is tight enough to inform. Where the sales for a home’s profile spread too widely, only the figure is published — a wide interval would say nothing, and an artificially narrow one would suggest a precision the data does not support.
My home is part of a group. Which figure is this?
This building’s. Every figure on C’Estimate is for the individual home, not the operating company, so each home in a group has its own page and its own figure.
Is my occupancy or fee information shown?
No. C’Estimate publishes no trading figures, on the page or on request. Only the estimated value is shown.
Can I correct or refine it?
Yes, by confirming that you own the home or are authorised to act for its owner. What you send is never displayed on C’Estimate — it is used to update your C’Estimate and may be integrated into the professional information services of Corryk, the publisher, which are available to its professional clients.
Does a page mean the home is for sale?
No. Every care home in England and Wales has a page, regardless of its owner’s intentions. A page implies no plan to sell.
What is visible publicly?
The estimated value and information that is already public: the address, the type of home and what it is registered for, who holds the freehold according to the land register, and its catchment. Anything you send when confirming your home is never displayed.
Can I dispute a figure or ask for a page to be removed?
Yes. Every request for correction or removal sent to reception@corryk.com is reviewed and acted on.