BIRCHLAND PROPERTIES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00751025 · ltd · incorporated 1963-02-21
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with a workable charge structure — clean refinance potential.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Dependent on title and valuation due diligence; standard property risks.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 53.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£2.03M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01470
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 41100Development of building projects
  • 47210Retail sale of fruit and vegetables in specialised stores
  • 68209Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). 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

1 live charge · oldest 53.1y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 53.1 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: medium (79/100)

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

Company profile
address, 4 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
91 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 £2,026,938
Cash YoY
+839%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£15k
↑ 839% YoY
Net Worth
£2.0m
↑ 1.8% YoY
Current Assets
£15k
↑ 820% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£405k£811k£1.2m£1.6m£2.0mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£2.28M£2.24M
Current assets£15.5k£1.7k
Cash£15.5k£1.6k
Debtors£36£39
Net assets£2.03M£1.99M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-12-11
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  3. 2023-11-28
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  4. 2022-12-06
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  5. 2021-08-10
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  6. 2020-08-18
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  7. 2019-04-29
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  8. 2018-08-10
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  9. 2017-12-07
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2016-12-01
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2015-12-14
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  12. 2015-11-04
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2014-12-09
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  14. 2014-10-27
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2013-12-30
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2002-06-14
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    MILTON, John Louis resigned
    director
  17. 1997-03-10
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    MILTON, Caroline Ruth appointed
    secretary
  18. 1997-03-10
    ➕
    MILTON, Caroline Ruth appointed
    director
  19. 1997-03-10
    ➖
    MILTON, Bryan Kevin resigned
    secretary
  20. 1995-03-01
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    MILTON, Bryan Kevin appointed
    secretary
  21. 1995-03-01
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    MILTON, Dorothy Margaret resigned
    secretary
  22. 1995-03-01
    ➖
    MILTON, Dorothy Margaret resigned
    director
  23. 1973-06-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank Limited
  24. 1963-02-21
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    Company incorporated
    As BIRCHLAND PROPERTIES LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100
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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 63 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
Mr Bryan Kevin Milton
Individual · British · DOB 01/1956 · age 70
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Caroline Ruth Milton
Individual · British · DOB 10/1955 · age 71
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1963-02-21
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01470 — SIC 01470

Registered office

Birch Land
Colliers Lane, Charlcombe
Bath
BA1 8DP

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-14
Last: 2025-11-30

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

MILTON, Caroline Ruth→
secretary · appointed 1997-03-10
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Active
MILTON, Bryan Kevin→
director · ~70y
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Active
MILTON, Caroline Ruth→
director · ~71y · appointed 1997-03-10
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Active
MILTON, Bryan Kevin→
secretary · appointed 1995-03-01 · resigned 1997-03-10
Resigned
MILTON, Dorothy Margaret→
secretary · resigned 1995-03-01
Resigned
MILTON, Dorothy Margaret→
director · ~94y · resigned 1995-03-01
Resigned
MILTON, John Louis→
director · ~96y · resigned 2002-06-14
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 Limited
Legal charge1 property13/06/1973—
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Recent filings (91 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-10
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-08-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2018-11-30