Maiden Castle House
12-14 Gloucester Road, Dorchester, DT1 2NJ · Dorset · South West
What the record says
Rated Good overall, with every key question Good and none of this operator's 15 rated services are below Good.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- All 15 of Care South's rated services are Good or better. See the operator.
- On the record
- No key question is below Good and the rating is current. This is what a clean CQC record looks like — the checks we can make from the published data raise nothing.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 66
- Registered with CQC
- 23 Nov 2010
- Run by
- Care South
- Part of
- Care South · 16 services
- Phone
- 01305251661
- 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.
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Care home without nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Good | 6 Nov 2025 |
| Effective | Good | 6 Nov 2025 |
| Caring | Good | 6 Nov 2025 |
| Responsive | Good | 6 Nov 2025 |
| Well-led | Good | 6 Nov 2025 |
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 8 Jul 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 |
| Kenwith Castle Country House Care | Good, published 24 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Devon |
| 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 8 Jul 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.
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Other services in Dorchesterregistered for at least one of the same groups this service supports, listed with the strongest CQC ratings first. A place to look around — not a recommendation, and not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Casterbridge LodgeDorchester · 35 bedsGood, published 21 Jul 2025
- Casterbridge ManorDorchester · 64 bedsGood, published 21 Feb 2025
- Castle ViewDorchester · 57 bedsGood, published 4 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Cheriton Care HomeDorchester · 71 bedsGood, published 30 Jan 2025
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-119691758
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.