Kenwith Castle Country House Care
Abbotsham, Bideford, EX39 5BE · Devon · South West
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: Kenwith Castle Country House Care, Two Rivers Investments Limited, deregistered 7 Jun 2021.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 3 years old.
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 24 Feb 2023, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Care South's 16 rated services, none are below Good — including this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 59
- Registered with CQC
- 1 Jun 2021
- Run by
- Care South
- Part of
- Care South · 16 services
- Phone
- 01237470060
- Website
- www.care-south.co.uk
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
Select a group to see other services registered for it in Devon.
Care home without nursing
Looking for services registered for a particular need? Find care that fits in Devon.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 24 Feb 2023 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 24 Feb 2023 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 24 Feb 2023 |
| Responsive | Outstandingrating 3+ yrs old | 24 Feb 2023 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 24 Feb 2023 |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 15 other locations
Other active services registered to Care South. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandra House | Good, published 17 Jul 2024 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
| Beauchamp House Nursing Home | Good, published 9 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Somerset |
| Buxton House | Good, published 23 Sep 2025 | Dorset |
| Care South Home Care Services Dorset | Good, published 8 Dec 2025 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
| Care South Home Care Services Somerset | Good, published 18 May 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Somerset |
| Castle Dene | Good, published 14 Nov 2024 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
| Dorset House | Good, published 1 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
| Elizabeth House | Good, published 29 May 2024 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
| Fairlawn | Good, published 16 Jan 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Dorset |
| Fern Brook Lodge | Good, published 4 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Dorset |
| Maiden Castle House | Good, published 6 Nov 2025 | Dorset |
| Marjorie House | Good, published 17 Feb 2026 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
…and 3 more. See the full group view.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
More on what to look for and ask on a visit —including what an occupational therapist would check for particular needs — at choosing a care home.
- Take the visit checklistWhat to look for and the questions to ask when you visit — the things a rating cannot tell you.
- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
- Ask the council for a needs assessmentFree, whatever the savings, and the formal route to arranged care and funding.
- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
Need this on paper? The single-site diligence pack on Kenwith Castle Country House Care adds full rating history, inspection failure themes quoted verbatim, the operator's whole-portfolio record and Companies House linkage — hand-reviewed, every figure dated. £149 · delivered within 48 hours.
See a sample and order →Similar services nearby
Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes registered for care without nursing within 5 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Herons Lea Residential Home Limitedabout 0.4 miles · Bideford · 20 bedsGood, published 24 May 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Rosehill Bideford Ltdabout 0.6 miles · Bideford · 17 bedsGood, published 30 Jul 2021rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Bluebell Houseabout 1 mile · Bideford · 36 bedsGood, published 2 Oct 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Golden Sandsabout 1 mile · Bideford · 17 bedsGood, published 4 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-10983124844
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.