The Old Vicarage Care Home
The Old Vicarage, Sherborne, DT9 6HL · Dorset · South West
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but 4 of this operator's 29 rated homes are below Good.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Healthcare Homes Group Limited's 29 rated homes, 4 are below Good — not 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
- 41
- Registered with CQC
- 1 Mar 2018
- Run by
- Healthcare Homes Group Limited
- Part of
- Healthcare Homes · 55 services
- Phone
- 01935873033
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 | Good | 1 Apr 2025 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 28 Mar 2019 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 28 Mar 2019 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 28 Mar 2019 |
| Well-led | Good | 1 Apr 2025 |
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 — 28 other locations
Other active services registered to Healthcare Homes Group Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Aldringham Court | Good, published 6 Oct 2025 | Suffolk |
| Barking Hall Nursing Home | Good, published 6 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
| Beaumont Park Nursing and Residential Home | Requires improvement, published 15 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Central Bedfordshire |
| Bilney Hall | Good, published 1 May 2026 | Norfolk |
| Claremont Nursing Home | Requires improvement, published 3 Jul 2025 | Norfolk |
| Fornham House Residential Home | Good, published 19 May 2026 | Suffolk |
| Foxgrove Residential Home | Outstanding, published 23 May 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
| Haughgate House Nursing Home | Good, published 22 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
| Hillcroft House | Good, published 18 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
| Home Close | Good, published 5 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Cambridgeshire |
| Home Meadow | Good, published 14 Sep 2023 | Cambridgeshire |
| Maynell House | Good, published 17 Aug 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
…and 16 more. See the full group view.
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?
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- 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.
- The Evergreens Lodgeabout 4.7 miles · Sherborne · 39 bedsGood, published 20 Jul 2026
- Trinity Manor Care Homeabout 5 miles · Sherborne · 64 bedsNot yet rated
- Trinity Manor Care Homeabout 5 miles · Sherborne · 64 bedsGood, published 26 Oct 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- The Hayesabout 5.1 miles · Sherborne · 50 bedsGood, published 7 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-4890026700
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.