BAUNTON HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00447465 · ltd · incorporated 1948-01-03
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 6 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
99 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-12-312024-12-31
Average employees300300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-06-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-02-13
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  5. 2023-09-21
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    WRAIGHT, Sarah Jane resigned
    director
  6. 2023-08-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-02-07
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  8. 2023-02-01
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2023-02-01
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  10. 2023-02-01
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  11. 2022-08-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2022-05-19
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    WRAIGHT, Sheila resigned
    secretary
  13. 2022-05-19
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    WRAIGHT, Sheila resigned
    director
  14. 2021-08-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  15. 2020-08-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-08-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-08-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-09-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  19. 2002-03-13
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    ENGLAND, Elizabeth Susan appointed
    director
  20. 2002-03-13
    ➕
    WRAIGHT, Sarah Jane appointed
    director
  21. 1994-07-08
    ➕
    HEWETT, Sandra Louise appointed
    director
  22. 1994-07-08
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    HINE, Jacqueline Ann appointed
    director
  23. 1994-03-09
    ➖
    HINE, Barbara Ann resigned
    director
  24. 1948-01-03
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As BAUNTON HOLDINGS LIMITED

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 78 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.)
🔒Co-director network graph

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1948-01-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64999 — Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified

Registered office

10 South St.
Bridport
Dorset.
DT6 3NJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-14
Last: 2026-01-31

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

ENGLAND, Elizabeth Susan→
director · ~70y · appointed 2002-03-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEWETT, Sandra Louise→
director · ~59y · appointed 1994-07-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HINE, Jacqueline Ann→
director · ~62y · appointed 1994-07-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WRAIGHT, Sheila→
secretary · resigned 2022-05-19
Resigned
HINE, Barbara Ann→
director · ~94y · resigned 1994-03-09
Resigned
WRAIGHT, Sarah Jane→
director · ~64y · appointed 2002-03-13 · resigned 2023-09-21
Resigned
WRAIGHT, Sheila→
director · ~102y · resigned 2022-05-19
Resigned

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Recent filings (99 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-04-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-04-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-06-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-13
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-08-09
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2023-02-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-01
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-02-01
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-02-01
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-02-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-08-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-02