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Care home

Sowerby House

Front Street, Thirsk, YO7 1JP · North Yorkshire · Yorkshire and The Humber

51 beds · operated by Ultimate Care Limited, part of We Care Group

CQC overall rating
Good3 Dec 2025

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but 3 of this operator's 4 rated homes are below Good.

Operator's wider portfolio
3 of 4 of Ultimate Care Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGood3 Dec 2025
EffectiveGood3 Dec 2025
CaringGood3 Dec 2025
ResponsiveGood3 Dec 2025
Well-ledGood3 Dec 2025

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 — 3 other locations

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

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Barton Brook Care HomeRequires improvement15 Dec 2025Salford
Bilton Hall Nursing HomeRequires improvement30 Aug 2024North Yorkshire
Saltshouse Haven Care HomeRequires improvement28 Jul 2022rating 3+ yrs oldKingston upon Hull, City of

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
5 Aug 2021
Beds
51
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-11217112979

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.