WYKEHAM FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00534698 · ltd · incorporated 1954-06-19
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 28.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£465.4k
year to Jan 2025
Net worth
—
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: conservative operator with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 59). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 28.7y

75/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 28.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
15 officers (3 active, 15 linked, 8 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
104 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £45,705

Key financials

1 year 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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-01-31
Turnover£465.4k
Operating profit£36.1k
Profit before tax£45.7k
Average employees0

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (40 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-11-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  4. 2022-11-30
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  5. 2022-10-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  6. 2021-11-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-04-14
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    officers · AP03
  8. 2021-04-09
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    HALL, Rebecca Mary appointed
    secretary
  9. 2021-04-09
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    BRYANT, Elizabeth Maria resigned
    secretary
  10. 2021-04-09
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  11. 2021-03-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-06-05
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    officers · AP01
  13. 2020-06-05
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  14. 2020-05-29
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    STEEL, David Kenneth appointed
    director
  15. 2020-05-29
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    SWORD, Robert Arthur Hallifax resigned
    director
  16. 2020-02-21
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    BRYANT, Elizabeth Maria appointed
    secretary
  17. 2020-02-21
    ➖
    EVANS, Catherine Sarah Jane resigned
    secretary
  18. 2020-02-21
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  19. 2020-02-21
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  20. 2019-10-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2018-10-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  22. 2017-11-28
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  23. 2017-11-13
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    BIGGINS, Eileen Ann resigned
    secretary
  24. 2017-11-13
    ➕
    EVANS, Catherine Sarah Jane appointed
    secretary
  25. 2005-06-01
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    DOWNE, Richard Henry, Viscount appointed
    director
  26. 2005-06-01
    ➖
    DOWNE, Alison Diana, The Viscountess Downe resigned
    director
  27. 2002-03-15
    ➖
    DAWNAY, John Christian George, Rt Hon Viscount Downe resigned
    director
  28. 1998-02-16
    ➕
    BIGGINS, Eileen Ann appointed
    secretary
  29. 1998-02-16
    ➖
    WHITE, Ian Charles resigned
    secretary
  30. 1998-02-16
    ➖
    WHITE, Ian Charles resigned
    director
  31. 1997-09-24
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  32. 1995-05-12
    ➖
    BOOTH, Ian resigned
    secretary
  33. 1995-05-12
    ➕
    WHITE, Ian Charles appointed
    secretary
  34. 1993-10-18
    ➕
    BOOTH, Ian appointed
    secretary
  35. 1993-10-18
    ➖
    BRETT, Ivan Victor resigned
    secretary
  36. 1993-10-18
    ➖
    BRETT, Ivan Victor resigned
    director
  37. 1993-10-18
    ➖
    PERRY, David Bayes resigned
    director
  38. 1993-10-18
    ➕
    SWORD, Robert Arthur Hallifax appointed
    director
  39. 1993-10-18
    ➕
    WHITE, Ian Charles appointed
    director
  40. 1954-06-19
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As WYKEHAM FARMS LIMITED

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 59 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 59. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 72 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

Wykeham Estate Settlement is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Wykeham Estate Settlement
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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WYKEHAM FARMS LIMITED
This company · 00534698

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Wykeham Estate Settlement
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares · trust interest06/04/2016
Viscount Richard Henry Downe
Individual · British · DOB 04/1967 · age 59
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Robert Arthur Hallifax Swordceased 30/11/2022· significant influence

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

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6 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
Incorporated1954-06-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Wykeham Estate Office
Wykeham
Scarborough
Yorks
YO13 9QD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-19
Last: 2025-08-05

Officers (3 active · 12 resigned)

HALL, Rebecca Mary→
secretary · appointed 2021-04-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DOWNE, Richard Henry, Viscount→
director · ~59y · appointed 2005-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STEEL, David Kenneth→
director · ~54y · appointed 2020-05-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BIGGINS, Eileen Ann→
secretary · appointed 1998-02-16 · resigned 2017-11-13
Resigned
BOOTH, Ian→
secretary · appointed 1993-10-18 · resigned 1995-05-12
Resigned
BRETT, Ivan Victor→
secretary · resigned 1993-10-18
Resigned
BRYANT, Elizabeth Maria→
secretary · appointed 2020-02-21 · resigned 2021-04-09
Resigned
EVANS, Catherine Sarah Jane→
secretary · appointed 2017-11-13 · resigned 2020-02-21
Resigned
WHITE, Ian Charles→
secretary · appointed 1995-05-12 · resigned 1998-02-16
Resigned
BRETT, Ivan Victor→
director · ~98y · resigned 1993-10-18
Resigned
DAWNAY, John Christian George, Rt Hon Viscount Downe→
director · ~91y · resigned 2002-03-15
Resigned
DOWNE, Alison Diana, The Viscountess Downe→
director · ~85y · resigned 2005-06-01
Resigned
PERRY, David Bayes→
director · ~101y · resigned 1993-10-18
Resigned
SWORD, Robert Arthur Hallifax→
director · ~74y · appointed 1993-10-18 · resigned 2020-05-29
Resigned
WHITE, Ian Charles→
director · ~74y · appointed 1993-10-18 · resigned 1998-02-16
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property24/09/1997—
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Recent filings (104 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-30
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-02
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2021-04-14
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-04-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-21