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Brook House

47 Colchester Road, Colchester, CO6 2PW · Essex · East of England

36 beds · operated by Milton Lodge Limited

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement8 Nov 2024

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and 1 of this operator's 2 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement8 Nov 2024
Well-ledRequires improvement8 Nov 2024
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 2 of Milton Lodge Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvement8 Nov 2024
EffectiveGood8 Nov 2024
CaringGood8 Nov 2024
ResponsiveGood8 Nov 2024
Well-ledRequires improvement8 Nov 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 — 1 other location

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

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Milton Lodge Retirement HomeGood18 Oct 2019rating 3+ yrs oldEssex

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
7 Mar 2022
Beds
36
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-12718124805

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.