Horton Cross Nursing Home
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Horton Cross Nursing Home, located in Ilminster, Somerset, offers personalized care for older individuals, with a strong emphasis on dementia care. The…
- Care home
- Horton Cross Nursing Home
- Location
- Ilminster, Somerset, Ilminster, TA19 9PT
- Care types
- Nursing, Dementia
- CQC rating
- Good
- Latest CQC inspection
- 1 December 2023
- Beds
- 47
- Funding accepted
- Self Funding (Private), Local Authority, Local Authority with Top Up, NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
- Phone
- 01460 52144
- CQC location ID
- 1-127009637
Rated 4.4/5 from 10 Google reviews.
What families say
Families praise the care home's staff, particularly the leadership, for being kind, caring, and compassionate. The home's manager is highlighted as being approachable and committed to residents' well-being. However, there are concerns about the home's quality of care, as reflected in a recent inadequate rating from…
What the CQC says
Rated Good by the CQC on 17 December 2025.
Good — the service is performing well and meeting CQC’s expectations. What this rating means
The five key questions
- Safe
- Inadequate — Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
- Effective
- Requires improvement — Does the care achieve good outcomes and follow best practice?
- Caring
- Good — Are staff kind, respectful and compassionate?
- Responsive
- Good — Is care organised around each person’s needs?
- Well-led
- Inadequate — Is the home well run, open and always improving?
What has changed
- Overall rating improved from Requires improvement to Good (previously rated October 2022).
- Got worse: Safe (Requires improvement → Inadequate), Well-led (Requires improvement → Inadequate).
Source: Care Quality Commission — read the full CQC report. Last checked by CareFinder on 10 September 2026.
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