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Heron House Residential Home

Heron Drive, Taunton, TA1 5HA · Somerset · South West

44 beds · operated by Heron House Residential Home Limited, part of Abbeyfield Society

CQC overall rating
Outstanding16 Aug 2023

Diligence verdict

Rated Outstanding overall, but the rating is 2 years old.

Age of rating
2 years old — published 16 Aug 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGoodrating 3+ yrs old1 Nov 2019
EffectiveGood16 Aug 2023
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old1 Nov 2019
ResponsiveOutstanding16 Aug 2023
Well-ledOutstanding16 Aug 2023

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

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
6 Dec 2010
Beds
44
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-116766293

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.