Care home · Torquay
Warberries Nursing Home
Illustrative photo, not of Warberries Nursing Home- Address
- Lower Warberry Road, Torquay, TQ1 1QS
- Run by
- Margaret Rose Care Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 49 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- Yes, registered as a nursing home (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- November 2011 (14 years)
- Registered manager
- Karen Allison Turkmen Sergiu Dorin Tautan
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2004 (22 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 05241804)
- Last CQC check
- 13 Jan 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,520–£1,860 a week for nursing care (dementia). Our estimate from published local prices, not a quote. How we estimate
Licensed by CQC for: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-335417425
About Warberries Nursing Home
Warberries Nursing Home is a CQC-registered nursing home in Torquay, run by Margaret Rose Care Limited. Its CQC registration covers adults of all ages, including people living with dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (January 2025). Responsive was rated Requires improvement. It is one of 45 CQC-registered care homes in and around Torquay; 32 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Scores behind the rating
CQC's single assessment framework gives every quality statement a score out of 4, then reports each key question as a percentage. Averaged across the five areas, Warberries Nursing Home scores 69%.
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 70%
- 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 enablement2 · Some shortfalls
Responsive 50%
- Person-centred Care2 · Some shortfalls
- Care provision, Integration and continuity2 · Some shortfalls
- Providing Information2 · Some shortfalls
- Listening to and involving people2 · Some shortfalls
- Equity in access2 · Some shortfalls
- Equity in experiences and outcomes2 · Some shortfalls
- Planning for the future2 · Some shortfalls
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
4 means exceptional and 1 means significant shortfalls (3 good, 2 some shortfalls). CQC data, assessed 26 June 2024, published 13 January 2025, Open Government Licence. Where no score shows, that statement wasn't part of this assessment and its earlier result still counts.
Past CQC ratings
- Apr 2015
- May 2016
- Dec 2018
- Apr 2021
- Apr 2022
- Sep 2022
- Feb 2024
- Jan 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
CQC documents
- CQC inspection report 14 February 2024
- CQC inspection report 24 September 2022
- CQC inspection report 14 April 2022
- CQC inspection report 16 April 2021
- CQC inspection report 12 December 2018
- CQC inspection report 19 May 2016
Food safety inspection
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 11 June 2025 by Torbay. Ask how special diets are handled and whether residents can eat when they like.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Warberries Nursing Home"). Open Government Licence.
Location and local area
- Ward
- Wellswood
- Council
- Torbay Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Torbay
- NHS planning area
- NHS Devon Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban; further from a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in TQ1 (37)
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Close by
- Bus stop 50 m (1 min walk) · 21 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Torquay, 2.0 km
- GP surgery Southover Medical Practice, 1.1 km (14 min walk)
- Pharmacy Torwood Street Pharmacy, 680 m (9 min walk)
- Shop Co-op, 730 m (9 min walk)
- Park Torwood Gardens, 480 m (6 min walk)
- Café Pengelly's Cafe, 460 m (6 min walk)
- Place of worship Riviera Life Church, 430 m (5 min walk)
- Library Torquay Central Library, 1.2 km (15 min walk)
Distances are as the crow flies, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); real walking routes will be longer and may include hills or busy roads.
Ward and NHS boundaries from official postcode data, Open Government Licence.
Warberries Nursing Home over the years
Registered in November 2011, it has 14 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 8 overall ratings for it (2015–2025), starting at Requires improvement; it has gone up 3 and down 2 times, and is now Good.
Reports on record: 6, with the most recent dated 14 February 2024.
The company behind Warberries Nursing Home
Warberries Nursing Home is run by Margaret Rose Care Limited (company 05241804), incorporated in 2004, 7 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is residential care for older and disabled people.
Inspection findings in brief
- Warberries Nursing Home provides accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care for up to 49 people.
- The service provides support to older people including people living with dementia.
- At the time of this assessment there were 38 people living at the service.
- Comments included, “I have been very pleased with the care” and “No problems at all, I am happy.
Inspected 23 November 2023; report published 14 February 2024; supporting 38 people at the time. From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Likely fees
We estimate Warberries Nursing Home at £1,520–£1,860 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £79k–£97k.
For residents assessed as needing nursing, a weekly NHS contribution goes straight to the home towards the fee, whoever pays the rest.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Torbay Council for a free care needs assessment.
Around Torquay
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 21 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Mount Tryon, under 0.5 miles away.
It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: learning disabilities (8 of the nearest 25); sight or hearing loss (5 of the nearest 25).
5 of the 24 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Wellswood ward, classed by ONS as urban (further from a major town or city), among the 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Devon ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a pharmacy (9 min), a shop (9 min), a park (6 min), a café (6 min) and a bus stop (1 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
The ratings in context
Area by area, Responsive is rated below Good; 4 other areas are Good.
Across Torbay, 3 of 70 rated care homes are Requires improvement for Responsive (4%).
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Effective at 75% and its lowest is Responsive at 50%, averaging 69% overall.
If you are considering it, read the Responsive section of the report first and ask what has changed since the inspection.
Needs it is registered to meet
Registration details from CQC.
Ratings for safety, care and leadership
- Safe75% score56 of 70 in Torbay
- Effective75% score59 of 70 in Torbay
- Caring70% score66 of 70 in Torbay
- Responsive50% score3 of 70 in Torbay
- Well-led75% score51 of 70 in Torbay
From CQC's latest report, published 13 January 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Torbay share it.
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Where Warberries Nursing Home stands locally
- Rated Good. Across Torbay, 80% of the 70 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 2 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (January 2025) is more recent than 81% of care home ratings in Torbay.
- With 49 beds it is larger than 93% of care homes in Torbay, where the typical home has 26.
- Registered with CQC in 2011: it has been registered longer than 49% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Torbay lists 3.
- Areas CQC rated below Good: Responsive (6% of care homes in Torbay are also rated below Good here). Ask the provider what has changed since.
Compared with every CQC-registered care home in Torbay. Source: CQC register, Oct 2026.
Nearest care homes
Guides for families
Torquay: care homes inspected recently
- Jubilee HouseFeb 2026
- BeechcroftAug 2026
- Mount TryonMay 2025
What families ask about Warberries Nursing Home
- When was Warberries Nursing Home last inspected?
- Its current CQC rating dates from 13 January 2025, 1 year ago. Ratings can be several years old; ask what has changed since, such as a new manager.
- Can Warberries Nursing Home care for someone with dementia?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
- Is Warberries Nursing Home registered with CQC?
- It is. The CQC register records Warberries Nursing Home as a care home, location ID 1-335417425 and was rated Good overall in January 2025.
- Where is Warberries Nursing Home?
- It is at Lower Warberry Road, Torquay, TQ1 1QS.
- What kind of care can Warberries Nursing Home offer?
- Registration for Warberries Nursing Home covers: nursing homes. Check which of these it offers today.
- How did Warberries Nursing Home score on each CQC key question?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Requires improvement; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
- What are Warberries Nursing Home's fees?
- Warberries Nursing Home hasn't shared a price list with us. Residential care home typically costs £1,445 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in South West). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- Who runs Warberries Nursing Home?
- CQC lists Margaret Rose Care Limited as the provider responsible for Warberries Nursing Home.
- How big is Warberries Nursing Home?
- Warberries Nursing Home is registered for up to 49 residents. Ask about current vacancies and whether rooms have en-suite facilities.
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