CHAPEL ASCOTE FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03311710 · ltd · incorporated 1997-02-03

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

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01500

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 81). 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 28.0y

35/100

too messy

Refinance path is blocked by complexity. Rethink structure or expect bespoke, expensive terms.

· Oldest live charge is 28.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 5 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 35/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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

8 charges (8/8 with lender, 8/8 with type)

Directors & officers

8 officers (6 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

99 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

80/100Exceptional

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

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Average employees	14	1400

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

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts
• 1 persons-with-significant-control

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (44 events)Click to expand

2025-12-22
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accounts · AA
2025-12-09
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-23
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officers · CH01
2024-12-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-09
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-03-09
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-03-09
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-03-09
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-01-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-21
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2020-12-21
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Charge satisfied #7
2020-11-16
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2020-11-16
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Charge satisfied #8
2020-10-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-03-05
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2020-03-05
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2020-03-05
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Charge satisfied #5
2020-03-05
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Charge satisfied #4
2020-01-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-01-29
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accounts · AA
2017-12-29
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Charge registered #8
Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
2017-12-07
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Charge registered #7
Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
2017-05-27
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Charge satisfied #3
2017-05-27
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Charge satisfied #2
2017-05-27
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Charge satisfied #1
2010-02-07
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BARRETT, Emma Louise appointed
director
2010-02-07
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MONTGOMERY, Alexandra Jane appointed
director
2010-02-07
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SKETCHLEY, Lucy Ann appointed
director
2005-04-29
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Charge registered #6
Lender: Abbey National PLC
2002-06-14
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Charge registered #5
Lender: David Hargrave Limited, John Arthur Barrett and Nicholas Robert Baird
2002-06-14
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Charge registered #4
Lender: David Hargrave Limited, John Arthur Barrett and Nicholas Robert Baird
1998-10-14
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Charge registered #3
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
1998-10-05
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Charge registered #2
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
1998-06-19
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Lombard North Central PLC
1997-04-10
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BARRETT, Jennifer Ann appointed
secretary
1997-04-10
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BARRETT, Jennifer Ann appointed
director
1997-04-10
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BARRETT, John Arthur appointed
director
1997-04-10
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1997-04-10
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INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
1997-02-03
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Company incorporated
As CHAPEL ASCOTE FARMS LIMITED
1997-02-03
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1997-02-03
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INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

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

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — 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 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Jennifer Ann Barrett Individual · British · DOB 08/1946 · age 80	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	06/04/2016
Mr John Arthur Barrett Individual · British · DOB 11/1945 · age 81	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.

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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

Incorporated1997-02-03

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

3rd Floor Guardian House

Cronehills Linkway

West Bromwich

West Midlands

B70 8GS

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-08

Last: 2026-01-25