BRERETON LODGE MOORS CENTRE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03099459 · ltd · incorporated 1995-09-07
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 23.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Feb 2025
Net worth
£132.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Other service activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

2 live charges · oldest 23.0y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 23.0 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: high (80/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
79 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 · FRS 105 (micro)
Positive net assets
Net assets £132,680
Net assets shrinking
Down £1,299 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£133k
~ YoY
Current Assets
£66k
↑ 27% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£27k£54k£80k£107k£134kFeb 2024Feb 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2025-02-272024-02-27
Total assets£132.7k£134.0k
Current assets£66.5k£52.1k
Net assets£132.7k£134.0k

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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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  3. 2024-11-29
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  4. 2023-11-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  5. 2023-04-04
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  6. 2023-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-04-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-02-18
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  10. 2019-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-07-31
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2019-07-12
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  13. 2019-07-05
    ➕
    KAYA, Lucy Clare appointed
    director
  14. 2019-07-05
    ➖
    FEARNLEY, Jacqueline Francis resigned
    director
  15. 2019-03-13
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
    accounts · AA01
  16. 2018-07-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2017-07-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  18. 2003-06-19
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  19. 2003-06-19
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  20. 1996-02-02
    ➕
    FEARNLEY, James Townend appointed
    director
  21. 1995-09-07
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    Company incorporated
    As BRERETON LODGE MOORS CENTRE LIMITED
  22. 1995-09-07
    ➕
    FEARNLEY, James Townend appointed
    secretary
  23. 1995-09-07
    ➕
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 1995-09-07
    ➖
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 1995-09-07
    ➕
    FEARNLEY, Jacqueline Francis appointed
    director
  26. 1995-09-07
    ➕
    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  27. 1995-09-07
    ➖
    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.

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 80 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 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 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 James Townend Fearnley
Individual · British · DOB 05/1946 · age 80
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Jacqueline Francis Fearnley
Individual · British · DOB 09/1946 · age 80
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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7 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
Incorporated1995-09-07
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC96090 — Other service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Brereton Lodge
Goathland
Whitby
North Yorkshire
YO22 5JR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-27
Last made up to: 2025-02-27
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-21
Last: 2025-09-07

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

FEARNLEY, James Townend→
secretary · appointed 1995-09-07
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Active
FEARNLEY, James Townend→
director · ~80y · appointed 1996-02-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KAYA, Lucy Clare→
director · ~59y · appointed 2019-07-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-09-07 · resigned 1995-09-07
Resigned
FEARNLEY, Jacqueline Francis→
director · ~80y · appointed 1995-09-07 · resigned 2019-07-05
Resigned
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1995-09-07 · resigned 1995-09-07
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property19/06/2003—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property19/06/2003—
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Recent filings (79 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-11-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-02-26
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-11-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-11-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-03
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-04-01
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-02-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-05