Beech Close Care Home, Beech Close, Desborough, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN14
Key Features
- Substantial 17,991 sq ft former care home comprising 45 bedrooms across six interconnected wings.
- Established residential location with excellent access to Kettering, Market Harborough, the A6 and A14.
- Vacant possession available, providing immediate redevelopment or operational potential, subject to consents.
- Attractive opportunity for developers, investors and care operators with strong local demand for housing and care-related uses.
- Fixtures and Fittings - Any fixtures & fittings not expressly mentioned within these particulars are excluded from the sale.
Description
The site has most recently been occupied by a former elderly persons care home arranged across a substantial footprint with multiple wings.
The existing accommodation is extensive and comprises six wings providing a total of 45 bedrooms, together with associated office and consultation rooms, communal lounges and dining facilities, day centre accommodation, multiple kitchens, WC facilities, laundry and utility rooms, plant rooms, storage areas
and staff facilities.
The building also benefited from ancillary features including an in-house hairdresser, conservatory and landscaped communal gardens.
Externally, the site benefits from a block paved parking area to the frontage together with mature landscaping and gardens surrounding the building perimeter.
Map Location
Property details
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Council Tax Band
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- Date Posted
- 2026-09-21
Utilities & Restrictions
Utilities
- Electricity
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- Water
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- Heating
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- Broadband
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- Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions
- Public Rights of Way
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- Private Rights of Way
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- Listed Property
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- Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.
Property Features
- Accessibility
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- Parking
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- Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.
Connectivity
Broadband
Fastest speed available at this postcode
1.8 Gbps
Gigabit full fibre
Suitable for
- 4K streaming on every screen
- Full-time home working
- Online gaming & big downloads
Mobile signal
Predicted 4G and 5G signal; indoor signal depends on building materials.
Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.
Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.
Nearest Schools
Primary
- Havelock Junior School434 metresNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Pupils
- 306
- Type
- Academy converter
- Havelock Infant School489 metresNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 5 to 7
- Pupils
- 175
- Type
- Academy converter
- Loatlands Primary School735 metresNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Pupils
- 446
- Type
- Academy converter
- Rothwell Junior School1.3 milesOfsted: Inadequate *
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Pupils
- 315
- Type
- Academy converter
- Rothwell Victoria Infant School1.3 milesNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pupils
- 263
- Type
- Academy converter
Secondary
- Montsaye Academy1.1 milesOfsted: Inadequate
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Pupils
- 1,017
- Type
- Academy converter
- Kingswood Secondary Academy4.6 milesNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Pupils
- 1,208
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Welland Park Academy5 milesNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 1,014
- Type
- Academy converter
- Brooke Weston Academy5 milesOfsted: Good
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Pupils
- 1,154
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Kettering Buccleuch Academy5 milesOfsted report card · Feb 2026
- Ages
- 4 to 18
- Pupils
- 1,808
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Faith
- Christian
* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.
Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.
Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.
Amenities
Supermarket
GP surgery
Pharmacy
Hospital
Green space
Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.
The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.
Getting Around
Nearest station
Nearest bus stop
Typical drive times
Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.
Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.
Flood Risk
From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.
Rivers and the sea
Surface water
These bandings are the summary. Where this location sits on the flood maps, plus planning activity, heritage and ground risks, is in the full report.
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