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Freshford Cottage Nursing Home

Dane Road, Seaford, BN25 1DU · East Sussex · South East

20 beds · operated by Zeenat Nanji & Tasneem Osman

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement8 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 3 years old, and 1 of this operator's 3 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
EffectiveRequires improvement8 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement8 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
3 years old — published 8 Mar 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 3 of Zeenat Nanji & Tasneem Osman'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
SafeGoodrating 3+ yrs old8 Mar 2023
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old8 Mar 2023
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 Mar 2018
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 Mar 2018
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old8 Mar 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

Same operator — 2 other locations

Other active services registered to Zeenat Nanji & Tasneem Osman. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Heatherdene Nursing HomeGood19 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs oldEast Sussex
Highbury House Nursing HomeGood9 Sep 2025Brighton and Hove

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
17 Jan 2011
Beds
20
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-130340343

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.