PRIORY MECHANICAL SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01117894 · ltd · incorporated 1973-06-12

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 32.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2024

Net worth

£1.98M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation

Sector: Construction

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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 32.0y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 32.0 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 (73/100)

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

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

14 officers (5 active, 14 linked, 10 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

119 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

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 £1,977,192

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.7m

Net Worth

£2.0m

Current Assets

£7.0m

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-04-30
Total assets	£2.15M
Current assets	£7.00M
Cash	£1.71M
Debtors	£5.26M
Net assets	£1.98M

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals 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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (40 events)Click to expand

2025-11-19
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2025-11-10
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-06-27
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-06-17
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-17
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2024-01-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-16
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-01-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-01-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-01-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-01-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-01-30
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2018-07-12
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KENNEDY, Susan resigned
director
2018-07-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2018-01-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-07-31
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2014-12-17
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KENNEDY, Samuel Brian appointed
director
2012-07-01
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MOLYNEAUX, Paul Patrick appointed
director
2012-07-01
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SPONDER, Peter Andrew appointed
director
2011-10-01
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KENNEDY, Samuel Brian appointed
secretary
2011-09-01
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PAYNE, Christopher Bernard resigned
secretary
2011-09-01
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PAYNE, Christopher Bernard resigned
director
2000-03-01
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KENNEDY, Susan appointed
director
1999-12-03
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PAYNE, Christopher Bernard appointed
secretary
1999-12-03
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PIPER, Stephen John resigned
secretary
1999-12-03
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PIPER, Stephen John resigned
director
1996-08-13
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1995-08-10
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Charge satisfied #1
1995-06-23
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BENNETT, Terry Cyril resigned
secretary
1995-06-23
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PIPER, Stephen John appointed
secretary
1995-06-23
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BENNETT, Terry Cyril resigned
director
1995-05-09
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1994-05-27
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Brian Kennedy and Pamela Kennedy
1994-05-25
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KENNEDY, Brian resigned
director
1994-05-25
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PIPER, Stephen John appointed
director
1994-05-12
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LANE, Alfred George resigned
director
1991-10-15
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KENNEDY, Barry appointed
director
1973-06-12
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Company incorporated
As PRIORY MECHANICAL SERVICES LIMITED

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 35 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — 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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 35 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 53 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

Priory Group Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Priory Group Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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PRIORY MECHANICAL SERVICES LIMITED

This company · 01117894

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Priory Group Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1973-06-12

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC43220 — Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation

Registered office

Priory House

479 Godstone Road

Whyteleafe

Surrey

CR3 0BL

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-10-31

Last made up to: 2024-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-08

Last: 2025-06-24