ALLTON CONTRACTORS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00331349 · ltd · incorporated 1937-09-06
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 48.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Oct 2025
Net worth
£87
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 70/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 4 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · oldest 48.4y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 48.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
12 connected companies via shared directors
81
Filing history
100 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £87
Very low cash
Cash position: £87
Cash YoY
+0%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£87
~ YoY
Net Worth
£87
~ YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
—
£0£17£35£52£70£87Oct 2024Oct 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-10-312024-10-31
Total assets£87£87
Cash£87£87
Net assets£87£87

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-11-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-11-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-02-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-12-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-07-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-12-18
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  8. 2020-12-18
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2020-12-18
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  10. 2020-12-18
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  11. 2020-05-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-11-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-10-15
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  14. 2019-01-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  15. 2018-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-01-16
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  17. 2012-04-01
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    TYREMAN, Andrea Gail appointed
    secretary
  18. 2012-04-01
    ➖
    RILEY-SMITH, Alexander William Anthony resigned
    secretary
  19. 2011-08-26
    ➕
    HUTCHINSON, James Michael appointed
    director
  20. 2011-08-26
    ➖
    RILEY, Ian resigned
    director
  21. 2011-04-07
    ➖
    HUTCHINSON, Michael Charles Hanley resigned
    director
  22. 2007-07-22
    ➕
    HUTCHINSON, Andrew Mark appointed
    director
  23. 1998-11-06
    ➖
    MARSTON, Archie Robert resigned
    secretary
  24. 1998-11-06
    ➕
    RILEY-SMITH, Alexander William Anthony appointed
    secretary
  25. 1988-01-04
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  26. 1983-04-14
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  27. 1978-01-11
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  28. 1977-12-09
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  29. 1937-09-06
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    Company incorporated
    As ALLTON CONTRACTORS LIMITED

Owner dependency

84/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 89 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Meads Trust Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Meads Trust Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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ALLTON CONTRACTORS LIMITED
This company · 00331349

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Meads Trust Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares01/06/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Andrew Mark Hutchinsonceased 18/12/2020· significant influence
  • Mr James Michael Hutchinsonceased 18/12/2020· significant influence

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1937-09-06
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

77 North Street
Ripon
North Yorkshire
HG4 1DS
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-03
Last: 2025-12-20

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

TYREMAN, Andrea Gail→
secretary · appointed 2012-04-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HUTCHINSON, Andrew Mark→
director · ~61y · appointed 2007-07-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HUTCHINSON, James Michael→
director · ~64y · appointed 2011-08-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MARSTON, Archie Robert→
secretary · resigned 1998-11-06
Resigned
RILEY-SMITH, Alexander William Anthony→
secretary · appointed 1998-11-06 · resigned 2012-04-01
Resigned
HUTCHINSON, Michael Charles Hanley→
director · ~93y · resigned 2011-04-07
Resigned
RILEY, Ian→
director · ~82y · resigned 2011-08-26
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
4
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property04/01/1988—
outstanding
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Charge1 property14/04/1983—
outstanding
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Mortgage1 property11/01/1978—
outstanding
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Floating charge1 property09/12/1977—
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Recent filings (100 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-11-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-11-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-02-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-07-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-31
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2020-12-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-12-18
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-12-18