Both of our homes were chosen and laid out to feel domestic, not institutional. The pages below describe what each home is like day-to-day; the photographs are from inside our actual buildings.
Mulbarton · 6 bedrooms
A six-bedded residential care home in the village of Mulbarton, a few miles south of Norwich. The Oaks is small enough that every resident is known by name and every meal is cooked in the home's own kitchen.
Direct: 01508 570761
Scratby · 6 bedrooms
A six-bedded residential care home in Scratby on the east-Norfolk coast, a short walk from the sea. Corner Oaks shares the same staff training, the same standards of care, and the same homely scale as our sister home in Mulbarton.
Direct: 01493 262050
The same standards across both homes. The character of the village on the outside; the same way of caring on the inside.
Every resident has their own bedroom — furnished by us or brought from home, whichever feels right. Familiar things help.
Comfortable, lived-in lounges with the television on or off as the room decides. Not a clinical day-room.
Meals are cooked here, every day, by Red Oaks Catering. The smell of breakfast is a daily anchor.
Both homes have gardens — for sitting in, for walking with a relative, for the small things that mark the seasons.
Six rooms means a single short corridor in each home — not a hospital wing. Easier to find your way, easier to feel at home.
Small homes mean a small core team. The same carer is likely to be the one who helps your relative on a Wednesday morning week after week.
Both of our homes accommodate just six older adults at a time. That scale is intentional. It means meals happen at one table, the same staff are familiar from one shift to the next, and the rhythms of the day are set by what residents want to do — not by a rota for a fifty-bed wing. We support each resident with personal care, medication, mobility and the slower, day-to-day work of keeping a home feeling like home.
We welcome short respite stays at both homes when a room is available — whether you need a week of cover while you take a break, a softer introduction to residential living before a longer move, or a period of recovery after a hospital stay. We build a light-touch care plan on arrival so staff know what matters most, keep family informed throughout, and treat the room as the resident's own from day one.
Food matters in a residential home — it is one of the few daily anchors that residents look forward to. Our in-house catering team, Red Oaks Catering, prepares all meals fresh in the home's own kitchen. Menus are planned with residents and adapted for dietary needs (diabetes, soft-textured diets, allergies, religious or vegetarian preferences). Family members are welcome to join for lunch by arrangement.
Rooms photograph a certain way; living in them feels different.