Welcome to The Dower House Nursing Home, an exceptional home on the outskirts of Winchester, Hampshire, with the relaxed ambience of a country house hotel in beautiful surroundings.

Quality care isn’t just what we do it’s how we think, act, and lead everyday.

Our Care

Short Stays

Short Stays

Should you require a short stay for recuperation and rehabilitation following illness or an operation, or your usual support network will be away, you will enjoy our comfortable, fully furnished short-stay rooms. These rooms also offer the perfect place for a peaceful break from your usual routine, with the benefit of personal care and support.

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Long Stays

Long Stays

All of our rooms offer the space to make a comfortable home for yourself, and thus when you move in permanently, are offered with minimal furnishings to allow you to bring your own furniture and personal items for you to achieve this.

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Nursing Care (Winchester)

Nursing Care

The Dower House employs a high ratio of nursing and care staff to residents. This ensures that you can get to know the staff who take care of you and enables us to become more like an extended family to you. We are proud of our extremely low staff turnover, which allows us to deliver excellent continuity of care. For your safety and peace of mind, a nurse-call system operates throughout the building ensuring you can easily contact staff 24 hours a day.

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Palliative Care (Winchester)

Palliative Care

Palliative Care is the delivery of individualised, person-centred care to improve your quality of life and make you as comfortable as possible during a life limiting illness. Good palliative care is achieved through the effective management of pain and other symptoms which can occur at any time and is not restricted to care at the end of your life. It includes physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual care, as appropriate for you.

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About The Dower House

Our Home

Our Home

The Dower House is the perfect location for later life residential and nursing care. Read more about our ethos and meet the staff committed to delivering excellence in all areas.

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Our Care

Our Care

Our resident’s wellbeing is our priority. Find out more about the care choices available to you. Read our residents stories to hear their personal experiences of life at The Dower House.

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Life at The Dower House Care Home (Winchester)

Life at
The Dower House

Discover what life is really like at The Dower House, including the facilities, activities and entertainment that ensure you enjoy a rich and fulfilling life with us.

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Take a tour of The Dower House

We're very proud of The Dower House and would love to show you what we feel makes it so special.

"Quality care isn't just what we do it's how we think, act and lead everyday"

Ellie Abrahms, Matron

"A beautiful environment"

"Thank you for all your care of my mother. It was a beautiful environment for her to spend the last few months of her life. "

Ms P.

"Faultless team without exceptuion"

"Thank you for my most recuperative visit imaginable... your team without exception was faultless and made such a difference to my stay"

Mrs H.

"I greatly appreciated the help and encouragement given to Mother"

"Thank you for your wonderful care of my Mother over the past few years. I greatly appreciated all the help and encouragement you gave her, particularly in the lockdown period when you helped her enjoy our craft zoom meetings."

R.S.

"The care received was amongst the best"

"The Dower House and all of you were more than we could have hoped for. The care Dad received by you all in such a beautiful home was amongst the best. The constant and complete care meant the world to our family, and to Dad, right through to his end of life."

J.L & family

"A heartfelt thank you to you all for the tender and thoughtful care"

"A heartfelt thank you to you all for the tender and thoughtful care that you gave Mummy throughout the 6 years she was at The Dower House. It was so comforting for me and my brother to know that she was so happy with her surroundings and with all of you"

H. & M.

"Comfortable and loving care"

"Every time we visited Mum it was so obvious that she was comfortable and lovingly looked after. That made an enormous difference to Mum but was also very comforting for all of us."

Mr C.

"Thank you for the kindness shown to me over the last 7 years"

"Thank you for your gentle & loving care given to my dear friend and also my partner whilst they were with you. Thank you also for the kindness shown to me over the last 7 years, it has been much appreciated"

Ms G.

"Words cannot begin to convey how grateful we are"

"Words cannot begin to convey how grateful we are for delivering our very frail little bird, Mrs M, so carefully through the revolving door of life to the other side"

H. and M.

Latest Blog Posts

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Refurbishments give our home a bright new look

Refurbishments give our home a bright new look

Author: Sara Stagg

Last year we shared with you that we were starting on some much needed refurbishments around the home.If you've been to see us recently you'll have seen how our reception area has now been opened up, clearly defined and brought more up to date.

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New year and lots of exciting new plans!

New year and lots of exciting new plans!

Author: Sara Stagg

This year we've got lots of exciting things to look forward to and we're starting off with a fun filled January!

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Join us for our annual Christmas Carol Service

Join us for our annual Christmas Carol Service

Author: Sara Stagg

​Are you planning to visit a friend or loved one here at The Dower House before Christmas?

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