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Care home

The Cottage Residential Care Home

51 High Street, Colchester, CO7 0AQ · Essex · East of England

10 beds · operated by Mr Roy Bellhouse

CQC overall rating
Inadequate15 Sep 2025

Diligence verdict

Rated Inadequate overall.

Below Good on
SafeInadequate15 Sep 2025
Well-ledInadequate15 Sep 2025

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeInadequate15 Sep 2025
EffectiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old11 Dec 2018
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old11 Dec 2018
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old11 Dec 2018
Well-ledInadequate15 Sep 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

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
14 Jan 2011
Beds
10
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-130187505

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.