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Care home

Sydenham House

Frederick Road, Bridgwater, TA6 4NG · Somerset · South West

49 beds · operated by Somerset Care Limited, part of Somerset Care

CQC overall rating
Good17 May 2024

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but Effective is Requires improvement (13 Jan 2023), the rating is 2 years old, and 1 of this operator's 24 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
EffectiveRequires improvement13 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
2 years old — published 17 May 2024. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 24 of Somerset 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
SafeGood17 May 2024
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old13 Jan 2023
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old31 Dec 2019
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old31 Dec 2019
Well-ledGood17 May 2024

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 — 23 other locations

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

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Burnworthy HouseGood16 Oct 2021rating 3+ yrs oldSomerset
Calway HouseGood8 Apr 2025Somerset
Cary BrookGood18 Dec 2025Somerset
Cooksons CourtOutstanding30 Mar 2026Somerset
Croft HouseGood22 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs oldSomerset
Field HouseGood4 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs oldSomerset
Fletcher HouseGood2 Apr 2024Somerset
Frith HouseOutstanding1 Jun 2026Somerset
Greenhill HouseGood20 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs oldSomerset
GrovelandsOutstanding11 Sep 2025Somerset
Halcon HouseOutstanding6 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs oldSomerset
Lavender CourtGood3 Feb 2025Somerset

…and 11 more. See the full group view.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
15 Nov 2010
Beds
49
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-122294895

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.