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Westleigh House

20 Chip Lane, Taunton TA1 1BZ — 12 beds, run by Voyage 1 Limited under the Voyage brand.

12 beds Registered 12.1 years

Somerset Council pays £834 a week for a residential place here. A family paying for itself is almost always quoted more than that, for the same room.

Council, residential£834per week, 2026/27
Council, dementia£890residential, per week
Council, nursing£862before NHS FNC
What this home chargesAsk themnot published anywhere

Source: Somerset Council, Adult Social Care Fees 2026/27. Nursing rates are stated to exclude NHS-funded nursing care. The higher nursing figure is OPMH nursing, for older people with mental health needs, effective 2026/27; we last checked it on 11 August 2026. We do not print an estimate of what Westleigh House charges a self-funding family, because no such figure has been published and we will not invent one. The council rate is the firm number to negotiate against.

How the inspectors rated it

Good

The Care Quality Commission rated Westleigh House Good when it last published an assessment, in May 2025.

Inspected within the last two yearsThe national middle is 4.2 years. How we measure this.

This one is recent — 1.2 years old, so it is a fair picture of the home as it is now. Still worth asking whether the manager has changed since.
Safe — Good Effective — Good Caring — Good Responsive — Good Well-led — Good

Read the full CQC report · what these ratings mean · register retrieved 4 August 2026

What the same operator runs elsewhere

Voyage 1 Limited runs 25 care homes for older people in England. Of the 25 carrying a published CQC rating, 21 are rated Good or Outstanding, 4 require improvement.

A pattern across an operator’s homes tells you something a single inspection cannot. It is a fair question to put to the manager: what has changed across the group since those inspections?

The paperwork, plainly

Beds registered
12
Typical size in Somerset
35 beds
Registered with the CQC
12.1 years
Manager on the register
Houlihan, Luke
Who owns it
Voyage 1 Limited
Companies House
02215899
Their own website
www.voyagecare.com

Every line comes from the CQC register, not from the home. If something is wrong, tell us and we will check it against the register.

Other homes close by

Distances are straight-line from the registered address — useful for working out who could visit easily, which matters more than most things on this page.

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Ask them what a room costs today

Published fees go stale within months. Tell us what care is needed and we will ask Westleigh House directly, then send you the reply. We are paid nothing if you move in, so we have no reason to push you here or anywhere else.

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Would the council pay towards this?

Whether you pay all of it, some of it or none of it turns on savings, income and whether a property would be left empty. Our calculator applies the 2026/27 means test and tells you the weekly figure. See also how council funding works and what happens when the money runs out.

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Where to get advice

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Age UK — paying for a care home · MoneyHelper · Care Quality Commission · our guides to costs and funding

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