SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Good
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Good
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?★Outstanding
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Good
CQC hasn't inspected this home for more than 5 years. It re-inspects based on risk, so an old rating doesn't count against a home on this site, but it may not reflect the home today. ?
Mellish House Residential Home is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 19 other homes in Suffolk.
81% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Stour Sudbury Limited runs Mellish House Residential Home, a residential care home in Sudbury, Suffolk with room for 48 residents. It is registered to care for older people, people with dementia and younger adults.
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from July 2025. 92% of homes in Suffolk also score 5. In Suffolk, 81% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). Of the 6 closest rated homes, none is rated above it.
CQC last rated the home in September 2022, giving it Good overall. Effective, caring and well-led were also Good. For safe, the rating was Requires improvement. CQC rated responsive as Outstanding. Its previous rating, in December 2017, was Outstanding, so the home has slipped.
