BURTON LATIMER ESTATES LTD

🌳Matureactive

02270152 · ltd · incorporated 1988-06-22

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 33.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

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

Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 33.3y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 33.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

11 officers (4 active, 11 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

126 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	3	300

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand

2025-12-18
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2025-02-06
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2024-06-25
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2023-06-08
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2022-06-16
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2021-06-30
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2020-06-23
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2019-12-20
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2019-12-19
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2019-12-19
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2019-06-10
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2018-10-12
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2018-10-12
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2018-10-12
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2018-06-13
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2017-05-25
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Charge satisfied #1
2009-06-01
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HARPUR, George Francis, Dr appointed
director
2009-06-01
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HARPUR, James Edmund appointed
director
2009-06-01
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NORMAN, Reginald Fred resigned
director
2009-06-01
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TEBBUTT, Norman Frederick resigned
director
2006-06-14
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HARPUR, James Edmund resigned
director
2005-09-30
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HARPUR, George Francis resigned
director
2004-11-28
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HARPUR, Richard Latimer resigned
director
2000-02-23
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HARPUR, George Francis appointed
director
2000-02-23
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HARPUR, James Edmund appointed
director
1998-08-10
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HARPUR, Philip Henry Latimer appointed
secretary
1998-05-29
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HARPUR, Janet Dorothy resigned
secretary
1998-05-29
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HARPUR, Janet Dorothy resigned
director
1993-01-28
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
1988-06-22
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Company incorporated
As BURTON LATIMER ESTATES LTD

Owner dependency

76/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 38 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 Philip Henry Latimer Harpur Individual · British · DOB 10/1965 · age 61	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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

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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1988-06-22

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Lamb & Holmes

West Street

Kettering

Northamptonshire

NN16 0AZ

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-13

Last: 2025-09-29

Officers (4 active · 7 resigned)

HARPUR, Philip Henry Latimer→

secretary · appointed 1998-08-10

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Active

HARPUR, George Francis, Dr→

director · ~55y · appointed 2009-06-01

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Active

HARPUR, James Edmund→

director · ~59y · appointed 2009-06-01

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Active

HARPUR, Philip Henry Latimer→

director · ~61y

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Active

HARPUR, Janet Dorothy→

secretary · resigned 1998-05-29

Resigned

HARPUR, George Francis→

director · ~55y · appointed 2000-02-23 · resigned 2005-09-30

Resigned

HARPUR, James Edmund→

director · ~59y · appointed 2000-02-23 · resigned 2006-06-14

Resigned

HARPUR, Janet Dorothy→

director · ~97y · resigned 1998-05-29

Resigned

HARPUR, Richard Latimer→

director · ~100y · resigned 2004-11-28

Resigned

NORMAN, Reginald Fred→

director · ~99y · resigned 2009-06-01

Resigned

TEBBUTT, Norman Frederick→

director · ~100y · resigned 2009-06-01

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC	Mortgage	1 property	28/01/1993	25/05/2017

Recent filings (126 total)

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accounts · AA

2025-12-18

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-10-01

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-02-06

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accounts · AA01

2024-11-24

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2024-10-03

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-06-25

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2023-10-11

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accounts · AA

2023-06-08

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2022-10-09

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-06-16

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2021-09-30

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-06-30

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-10-04

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2020-06-23

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capital · SH10

2019-12-20