Care home · Mere
Sursum Limited Bramley House
Typical fee here £1,370–£1,680 a week Estimate
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- Bramley House, Castle Street, Mere, BA12 6JN
- Run by
- Sursum Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 42 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- No, residential care only (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Pets
- Pets welcome (as stated on bramleycare.co.uk)
- Garden
- Garden for residents (as stated on bramleycare.co.uk)
- En-suite rooms
- En-suite rooms available (as stated on bramleycare.co.uk)
- Couples
- Couples welcome (as stated on bramleycare.co.uk)
- Registered with CQC
- January 2011 (15 years)
- Registered manager
- *
- Company check
- Active, trading since 1988 (38 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 02267578)
- Last CQC check
- 11 Aug 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,370–£1,680 a week for residential care (dementia). Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
CQC regulated activities: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
Full report at cqc.org.uk · CQC location ID 1-120661120
The service in brief
Registered with CQC as a residential care home, Sursum Limited Bramley House is based in Mere, run by Sursum Limited. It supports older people, with registered specialisms in dementia and physical disabilities.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (August 2025).
How CQC rated each area
- Safe75% score126 of 151 in Wiltshire
- Effective75% score139 of 151 in Wiltshire
- Caring75% score142 of 151 in Wiltshire
- Responsive75% score138 of 151 in Wiltshire
- Well-led75% score128 of 151 in Wiltshire
From CQC's latest report, published 11 August 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Wiltshire share it.
How long it has been running
Sursum Limited Bramley House has been registered with CQC since January 2011, about 15 years.
CQC has published 5 overall ratings for it (2016–2025), starting at Good; it has gone up 1 and down 1 time, and is now Good.
CQC lists 6 reports for this location, the latest dated 24 August 2019.
Specialisms
From the CQC register; ask how each need is met in practice.
What it may cost
We estimate Sursum Limited Bramley House at £1,370–£1,680 a week for residential care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £71k–£87k.
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Reading Sursum Limited Bramley House's CQC ratings
CQC rated every one of the five key questions Good here, so there is no weak spot in the published ratings.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 127 of the 150 other care homes in Wiltshire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Well-led at 75%, averaging 75% overall.
The local picture
There is 1 other care home within 3 miles, 0 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Castle Lodge Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.
3 of the 8 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Mere ward, classed by ONS as larger rural (further from a major town or city), among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a pharmacy (6 min), a shop (6 min), a park (4 min) and a café (6 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
What inspectors found
- The assessment was carried out because the provider was previously in breach of the legal regulation in relation to good governance.
- Improvements were found at this assessment and the provider was no longer in breach of this regulation.
- The provider had clear safeguarding processes, which staff understood and followed to help keep people safe.
- Comments included, “I certainly feel safe” and “I feel safe here.
Inspected 2 July 2019; report published 24 August 2019; supporting 31 people at the time. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
Scores behind the rating
CQC now scores each area it inspects from 1 to 4 against a set of "quality statements", and turns those into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Sursum Limited Bramley House scores 75%.
Safe 75%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation3 · Good
Effective 75%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment3 · Good
- How staff, teams and services work together3 · Good
- Supporting people to live healthier lives3 · Good
- Monitoring and improving outcomes3 · Good
- Consent to care and treatment3 · Good
Caring 75%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs3 · Good
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement3 · Good
Responsive 75%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity3 · Good
- Providing Information3 · Good
- Listening to and involving people3 · Good
- Equity in access3 · Good
- Equity in experiences and outcomes3 · Good
- Planning for the future3 · Good
Well-led 75%
- Shared direction and culture3 · Good
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion3 · Good
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
Scale: 1 (significant shortfalls) to 4 (exceptional). From CQC, assessed 29 July 2025, published 7 April 2025, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
Rating history
- Jun 2016
- Jul 2018
- Aug 2019
- Apr 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
CQC rating timeline for this address.
CQC documents
- CQC inspection report 24 August 2019
- CQC inspection report 24 July 2018
- CQC inspection report 3 June 2016
- Inspection report 1 June 2013
- Inspection report 2 March 2013
- Inspection report 2 October 2012
Food hygiene
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 4 (good), from an inspection on 2 July 2026 by Wiltshire. Try to visit at a mealtime: it shows how food, choice and help with eating work in practice.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Bramley House Care Home"). Open Government Licence.
Location and local area
- Ward
- Mere
- Council
- Wiltshire Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- South West Wiltshire
- NHS integrated care board
- NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board
- Urban or rural
- Larger rural · further from a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 20% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in BA12 (10)
View on OpenStreetMap · Get directions · Base map © OpenStreetMap
Within walking distance
- Pharmacy Mere Pharmacy, 520 m (6 min walk)
- Shop The Co-operative Food, 490 m (6 min walk)
- Park 280 m (4 min walk)
- Café Angel Cafe, 470 m (6 min walk)
- Place of worship St Michael the Archangel, 340 m (4 min walk)
- Library Mere Library, 380 m (5 min walk)
Straight-line distances to the nearest of each, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Walking routes are longer; check for hills and crossings if you plan to take a relative out.
Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence).
The registered provider
Sursum Limited Bramley House is run by Sursum Limited (company 02267578), incorporated in 1988, 22 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 4 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is nursing care.
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Frequently asked about Sursum Limited Bramley House
- Where is Sursum Limited Bramley House based?
- It is at Bramley House, Castle Street, Mere, BA12 6JN.
- Is Sursum Limited Bramley House a registered provider?
- Registered, yes: location 1-120661120 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a care home and was rated Good overall in August 2025.
- What services is Sursum Limited Bramley House registered for?
- Registration for Sursum Limited Bramley House covers: residential homes. Check which of these it offers today.
- Is Sursum Limited Bramley House registered for dementia care?
- Yes. Dementia is one of the specialisms on its CQC registration. Ask how many carers or staff have dementia training.
- When did CQC last rate Sursum Limited Bramley House?
- The rating now shown was published on 11 August 2025, 1 year ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- How big is Sursum Limited Bramley House?
- CQC registers Sursum Limited Bramley House for 42 residents; ask about vacancies, room sizes and en-suite bathrooms.
- Which provider runs Sursum Limited Bramley House?
- The registered provider is Sursum Limited, according to CQC.
- How much does Sursum Limited Bramley House charge?
- We don't have published prices from Sursum Limited Bramley House yet. A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- Is Sursum Limited Bramley House rated well for safety?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
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