12 ASHGROVE ROAD MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01286357 · ltd · incorporated 1976-11-12

Investment thesis

Unencumbered property vehicle — clean asset-backed target with refinance headroom.

Why interesting: Property-holding entity with no live charges; straightforward asset-backed case.

Why risky: Values depend on title and valuation; property-specific market exposure.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£4

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate

Sector: Real estate

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -33% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

18 officers (6 active, 18 linked, 12 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

120 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

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

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Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £4

Cash YoY

-33%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£2k

↓ 33% YoY

Net Worth

£4

~ YoY

Current Assets

£3k

↓ 26% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£4	£4
Current assets	£2.6k	£3.6k
Cash	£2.0k	£2.9k
Debtors	£670	£642
Net assets	£4	£4

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.

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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 (43 events)Click to expand

2025-09-29
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2024-09-25
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2024-09-24
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officers · CH01
2024-07-24
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accounts · AA
2023-09-01
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accounts · AA
2022-08-30
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accounts · AA
2021-08-25
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officers · AP03
2021-08-25
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2021-08-25
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2021-08-25
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officers · TM01
2021-08-25
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officers · TM02
2021-08-25
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officers · AP01
2021-08-11
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LAURINAVICIUTE, Marija appointed
secretary
2021-08-11
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POLE, Jake appointed
secretary
2021-08-11
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LAURINAVICIUTE, Marija appointed
director
2021-08-11
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POLE, Jake appointed
director
2021-08-11
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BURT, Andrew resigned
secretary
2021-08-11
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BURT, Andrew resigned
director
2021-07-08
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accounts · AA
2020-08-18
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accounts · AA
2019-07-16
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2019-03-05
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officers · CH03
2019-03-05
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officers · CH01
2011-07-22
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BURT, Andrew appointed
secretary
2011-07-22
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TICKNER, Dorothea Beate resigned
secretary
2011-07-22
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BURT, Andrew appointed
director
2011-07-22
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SMITH, Norman Frederick resigned
director
2011-07-22
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TICKNER, Dorothea Beate resigned
director
2011-06-18
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VIVARELLI, Leonardo resigned
director
2009-10-01
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VIVARELLI, Leonardo appointed
director
2009-10-01
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VIVARELLI, Leonardo appointed
director
2009-05-29
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TARR, Richard Bryant resigned
director
2005-03-31
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HAWTHORNE, Michael James resigned
secretary
2005-03-31
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TICKNER, Dorothea Beate appointed
secretary
2002-05-28
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TARR, Richard Bryant appointed
director
2002-05-28
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WALLIS, Sarah Louise Powers resigned
director
2000-01-25
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WALLIS, Sarah Louise Powers appointed
director
2000-01-11
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MELLISH, Ida Caroline resigned
director
1993-06-30
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HAWTHORNE, Karen Marlene resigned
secretary
1993-06-30
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HAWTHORNE, Michael James appointed
secretary
1993-06-30
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HAWTHORNE, Karen Marlene resigned
director
1976-11-12
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Company incorporated
As 12 ASHGROVE ROAD MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED

Owner dependency

65/100

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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 50 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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Michael James Hawthorne Individual · British · DOB 07/1944 · age 82	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	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

Incorporated1976-11-12

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC68209 — Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate

Registered office

Brunel House 11 The Promenade

Clifton

Bristol

BS8 3NG

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-02

Last: 2025-06-18