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Care home

Durham House Residential Care Home

Mains Park Road, Chester le Street, DH3 3PU · County Durham · North East

31 beds · operated by Premier Care Homes Limited

CQC overall rating
Good22 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but the rating is 6 years old.

Age of rating
6 years old — published 22 Feb 2020. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
All 2 of Premier Care Homes Limited's rated homes are Good or better.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGoodrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2020
EffectiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2020
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2020
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2020
Well-ledGoodrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2020

Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 1 other location

Other active services registered to Premier Care Homes Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Picktree Court Care HomeGood11 Nov 2022rating 3+ yrs oldCounty Durham

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
18 Jan 2011
Beds
31
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-108990568

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.