Tudor Lodge

A Description of the Home and facilities: 

Tudor Lodge was built in 1926.  It is a spacious house located in a quiet, leafy, suburban area in Sutton, Surrey. 

The accommodation is spacious, bright and fresh.  It is situated over three floors and comprises six bedrooms, all of which are in excess of 12 sq.mts., and each has additional en suite facilities.  Three bedrooms are on the ground floor, two are on the first floor and one on the top floor.  Each of the six bedrooms has optimum privacy and has its own lock/key which is owned by the Service User occupying the room, although designated staff on each shift have access to a key to open any room in emergency if required.  This key is the responsibility of the Management and shift leader on duty and is kept in a secure area.

Each service user also has a lockable area within their room for private possessions.  The Home has a safe for items of particular value which service users may wish to use.  Items kept on behalf of a service user are recorded and kept on file as an added security. 

The house is fully furnished and all bedrooms have a bed, bedside table, wardrobe and  comfortable chair/s, shelves or other furniture as required.  Service users can provide their own furniture/TV or other equipment if preferred and personalise their room as they wish.   

Downstairs there is also a large kitchen/diner, two spacious living rooms and a conservatory.  There is a large driveway to the front of the house with ample space for cars to accommodate visits.  At the rear of the house there is also a large attractive and interesting garden, which has a spacious terrace and laid to lawn grass area.  Service Users are encouraged to take a keen interest in the garden, supporting its development for the future. 

All maintenance and repairs to the home internally/externally are carried out by independent contractors to ensure reliability and quality.  A list of such contractors and emergency numbers are kept on the Notice Board in the Office for staff to access as and when necessary. 

Service Users each have a ‘home’ day, which is chosen by them, and are encouraged to clean their room, with the support of staff. 

The Home is equipped with Fire Alarm and Fire precautions.  Fire drills are carried out once a month and Fire call points and equipment checked each week under the Home’s Health & Safety precautions. 

The house is centrally heated with thermostatic control and lockable regulator on each radiator.

 The Physical Environment 

This spacious house is situated in Sutton which is very close to Cheam, Wallington and Croydon.  Sutton railway station is approximately a quarter of a mile away giving access to Central London (Victoria).  Bus links to all these areas are also very easily accessible from Sutton.  The property is close to local shops, recreation grounds and approximately half a mile distant from Sutton town centre, and two miles distant from Croydon, which also offers many facilities.  Shoppers from a wide area travel to Sutton which has a tree-lined, flower filled town centre and pedestrianised High Street.  The under-cover St Nicholas and Times Square shopping malls offer a superb selection of retailers together with many individual shops and plenty of interesting places to eat and drink. 

Sutton’s parks and leisure centres have something for everyone to enjoy. It also offers a state of the art six screen UCI cinema complex and two popular theatres, Secombe and Charles Cryer Studio Theatre, both of which are a vibrant heart of the theatre and arts community in Sutton where some of the many talented local companies perform in a variety of drama, dance musicals and comedy.  Secombe Theatre is also an ideal location to enjoy a meal or a pre-show drink in the Café Bar. 

Its central library has won international awards for its services.  There are also two multi-purpose leisure centres plus a wide range of other sports facilities.  The Westcroft Leisure Centre in particular is a multi-purpose recreation venue catering for water based and dry activities.  The facilities and recreational opportunities are available to all ages and ability levels, including those with disabilities.          

About the Borough 

Sutton is a prosperous outer London borough, formed by the amalgamation of the borough of Beddington and Wallington, the borough of Sutton and Cheam and the Carshalton Urban District  It lies on the edge of the North Downs in south London, adjacent to the boroughs of Kingston Upon Thames, Merton and Croydon.  It is gently hilly in its southern part, has more trees than any other London borough and more than 1500 acres of open space, including Beddington and Oaks Parks. 

The whole of the present-day London Borough of Sutton was once part of the Hundred of Wallington. 

The purpose of its Community Services is to promote social inclusion by providing equal access to services and targeting its resources to help service users to take a greater part in the life of the Community.  Residents and visitors to Sutton can enjoy a wide variety of cultural, sport and recreational activities.  Sutton contains many areas of outstanding and natural beauty, including the river Wandle which meanders through the borough and from which can be seen many historic buildings that line its path.