ADENWOOD LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01048308 · ltd · incorporated 1972-04-04
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 Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 5 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
8 live charges · 5 lenders · oldest 21.3y
35/100
too messy
Refinance path is blocked by complexity. Rethink structure or expect bespoke, expensive terms.
- · Oldest live charge is 21.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · 5 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (74/100)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
8 charges (8/8 with lender, 8/8 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (5 active, 10 linked, 6 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
122 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.
See pricing →Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
77
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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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| Metric | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|
| Average employees | 100 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
4 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 address
Last 90 days
3
filings
- • 1 address
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
- • 1 address
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (44 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-17📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2026-04-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2025-05-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2024-05-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-26📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AAMD
- 2023-04-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-06📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2022-12-06🔓Charge satisfied #8
- 2022-08-26📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2022-08-26🔓Charge satisfied #4
- 2022-04-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-24📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2021-12-23🔒Charge registered #8Lender: David Hugh Barrow, Vanessa Julie Barrow and Pc Trustees Limited as Trustees of the Haddonstone Pension Scheme
- 2021-12-20📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2021-12-20🔓Charge satisfied #7
- 2021-04-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2020-08-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-23📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2019-12-20🔒Charge registered #7Lender: Lloyds Bank Commercial Finance LTD
- 2019-02-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-04📄appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP03
- 2018-08-04📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2018-08-03➕LANTSBERY, Nicholas David appointedsecretary
- 2018-08-02➖LENNOX, Eric Gordon resignedsecretary
- 2016-07-25➕TURBERVILLE SMITH, Fiona Margaret appointeddirector
- 2016-07-25➕WALLMAN, Virginia Claire appointeddirector
- 2015-10-22➕BARROW, Vanessa Julie appointeddirector
- 2015-10-22➖BARROW, Jane Margaret resigneddirector
- 2012-03-07🔓Charge satisfied #3
- 2012-03-07🔓Charge satisfied #2
- 2012-03-07🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2012-02-29🔒Charge registered #6Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
- 2012-01-24🔒Charge registered #5Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
- 2012-01-24🔒Charge registered #4Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
- 2006-06-01🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Aib Group (UK) PLC
- 2006-06-01🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Aib Group (UK) PLC
- 2005-02-28🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 1999-11-16➖BARROW, Jane Margaret resignedsecretary
- 1999-11-16➕LENNOX, Eric Gordon appointedsecretary
- 1996-11-14➕BARROW, Jane Margaret appointedsecretary
- 1996-11-13➖BARROW, Robert Hugh resignedsecretary
- 1996-11-13➖BARROW, Robert Hugh resigneddirector
- 1995-01-03➕BARROW, David Hugh appointeddirector
- 1972-04-04🏢Company incorporatedAs ADENWOOD LIMITED
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
80/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 54 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
1 med ·Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern
mediumMultiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr David Hugh Barrow Individual · British · DOB 09/1960 · age 66 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1972-04-04
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices
Registered office
Office 7, Grovelands Business Park West Haddon Road
East Haddon
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN6 8FB
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-14
Last: 2026-03-31
Officers (5 active · 5 resigned)
LANTSBERY, Nicholas David→
Activesecretary · appointed 2018-08-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BARROW, David Hugh→
Activedirector · ~66y · appointed 1995-01-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BARROW, Vanessa Julie→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2015-10-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
TURBERVILLE SMITH, Fiona Margaret→
Activedirector · ~64y · appointed 2016-07-25
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WALLMAN, Virginia Claire→
Activedirector · ~54y · appointed 2016-07-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BARROW, Jane Margaret→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 1996-11-14 · resigned 1999-11-16
BARROW, Robert Hugh→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 1996-11-13
LENNOX, Eric Gordon→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 1999-11-16 · resigned 2018-08-02
BARROW, Jane Margaret→
Resigneddirector · ~91y · resigned 2015-10-22
BARROW, Robert Hugh→
Resigneddirector · ~94y · resigned 1996-11-13
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Mortgages & charges
8
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:8 of 8 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | David Hugh Barrow, Vanessa Julie Barrow and Pc Trustees as Trustees of the Haddonstone Pension Scheme David Hugh Barrow, Vanessa Julie Barrow and Pc Trustees Limited as Trustees of the Haddonstone Pension Scheme | A registered charge | 1 property | 23/12/2021 | 06/12/2022 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank Commercial Finance LTD | A registered charge | — | 20/12/2019 | 20/12/2021 | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Mortgage deed | 1 property | 29/02/2012 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 24/01/2012 | — | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | An omnibus guarantee and set-off agreement | 1 property | 24/01/2012 | 26/08/2022 | |
| satisfied | Aib Group (UK) Aib Group (UK) PLC | Mortgage debenture | 1 property | 01/06/2006 | 07/03/2012 | |
| satisfied | Aib Group (UK) Aib Group (UK) PLC | Legal mortgage | 2 properties | 01/06/2006 | 07/03/2012 | |
| satisfied | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 28/02/2005 | 07/03/2012 |
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Recent filings (122 total)
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-05-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2026-04-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-05-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-05-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-02
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AAMD
2023-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-04-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-03
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-12-06
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-08-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-06
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-12-24