HENRY ASQUITH (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00693983 · ltd · incorporated 1961-05-30
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
—
year to Jul 2025
Net worth
£243.1k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
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
Active trading company with a 90-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 90). 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: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 28.7y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 28.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
96 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 · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £243,119
Net assets shrinking
Down £1,097 YoY
Cash YoY
+51%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£87k
↑ 51% YoY
Net Worth
£243k
~ YoY
Current Assets
£96k
↑ 47% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£49k£98k£147k£195k£244kJul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Total assets£257.9k£316.1k
Current assets£96.4k£65.5k
Cash£86.9k£57.6k
Debtors£9.5k£7.9k
Net assets£243.1k£244.2k

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
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 (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-28
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-06-22
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  5. 2023-04-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-03-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-03-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-04-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-04-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-11-07
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    capital · SH01
  11. 2018-04-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-04-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2015-12-24
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2006-05-30
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  15. 2005-04-13
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    Charge satisfied #2
  16. 2004-07-09
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  17. 2004-02-17
    ➕
    MARNER, Anita appointed
    director
  18. 1998-02-21
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    Charge satisfied #1
  19. 1997-09-05
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Midland Bank PLC
  20. 1997-08-06
    ➖
    ASQUITH, Frank William resigned
    director
  21. 1997-05-07
    ➕
    ASQUITH, David William appointed
    director
  22. 1961-05-30
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As HENRY ASQUITH (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED

Owner dependency

98/100
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
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "ASQUITH" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 90 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 90 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 65 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Miss Joan Mary Asquith
Individual · British · DOB 02/1936 · age 90
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr David William Asquith
Individual · British · DOB 05/1971 · age 55
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1961-05-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Grove Farm
Little Smeaton
Nr Pontefract
WF8 3LF

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last: 2026-01-17

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

ASQUITH, Joan Mary→
secretary
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Active
ASQUITH, David William→
director · ~55y · appointed 1997-05-07
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Active
ASQUITH, Joan Mary→
director · ~90y
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Active
MARNER, Anita→
director · ~52y · appointed 2004-02-17
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Active
ASQUITH, Frank William→
director · ~81y · resigned 1997-08-06
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Debenture1 property30/05/2006—
satisfied
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property09/07/200413/04/2005
satisfied
Midland Bank
Midland Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property05/09/199721/02/1998
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Recent filings (96 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-22
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2023-06-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-03-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-03-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-08