The Firs
27 Fore Street, Witheridge, EX16 8AH · Devon · South West
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 4 years old.
- Age of rating
- 4 years old — published 4 Mar 2022, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of South West Care Homes Limited's 10 rated homes, none are below Good — including this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 27
- Registered with CQC
- 19 Jan 2011
- Run by
- South West Care Homes Limited
- Part of
- SWCH Ltd · 10 services
- Phone
- 01884860679
- Website
- www.southwestcarehomes.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 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 9 Dec 2020 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 9 Dec 2020 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Mar 2022 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Mar 2022 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 4 Mar 2022 |
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 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 9 other locations
Other active services registered to South West Care Homes Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Ashfield | Good, published 8 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Devon |
| Ashley House - Langport | Good, published 26 Nov 2024 | Somerset |
| Beechmount | Good, published 13 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Torbay |
| Cambrian Lodge | Good, published 11 Dec 2018rating 3+ yrs old | North Somerset |
| Kenwyn | Good, published 2 Jul 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Devon |
| Lake View | Good, published 20 Nov 2024 | Devon |
| Lavender Court Care Home | Good, published 24 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Cornwall |
| Manor House | Good, published 25 Nov 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Plymouth |
| Michaelstowe | Good, published 10 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Plymouth |
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 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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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes registered for care without nursing within 10 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Ridge House Residential Care Homeabout 4.7 miles · Crediton · 15 bedsRequires improvement, published 1 Jul 2026
- Summerhayes Care Homeabout 7.5 miles · Crediton · 19 bedsGood, published 9 Aug 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Kenwynabout 8.8 miles · Crediton · 25 bedsGood, published 2 Jul 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Creedy Courtabout 8.9 miles · Crediton · 18 bedsGood, published 22 Jul 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-131732289
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.