BENTWATERS FACILITIES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05053975 · ltd · incorporated 2004-02-24
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 22.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£387.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35130
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 84). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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 · 2 lenders · oldest 22.2y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.2 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: high (82/100)

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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
12 connected companies via shared directors
81
Filing history
64 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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £387,661
Cash YoY
+1844%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£33k
↑ 1844% YoY
Net Worth
£388k
↑ 30% YoY
Current Assets
£547k
↓ 64% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£302k£603k£905k£1.2m£1.5mDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£387.7k£299.0k
Current assets£546.9k£1.51M
Cash£33.1k£1.7k
Debtors£513.7k£1.51M
Net assets£387.7k£299.0k

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2025-01-28
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2025-01-28
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  4. 2024-08-05
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  5. 2023-07-11
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    officers · CH01
  6. 2023-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  7. 2022-06-28
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  8. 2021-07-06
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  9. 2020-07-09
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  10. 2019-09-19
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-08-06
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-05-30
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  13. 2017-01-03
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    address · AD01
  14. 2016-11-18
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    address · AD01
  15. 2016-11-17
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2015-04-20
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
  17. 2004-03-23
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Fortis Bank Sa-Nv UK Branch
  18. 2004-03-03
    ➕
    D'ARCY, Justin Alexander appointed
    secretary
  19. 2004-03-03
    ➕
    D'ARCY, Justin Alexander appointed
    director
  20. 2004-03-03
    ➕
    D'ARCY, Robert John Bruce appointed
    director
  21. 2004-03-03
    ➖
    BREAMS REGISTRARS AND NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2004-03-03
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    BREAMS CORPORATE SERVICES resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2004-02-24
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    Company incorporated
    As BENTWATERS FACILITIES LIMITED
  24. 2004-02-24
    ➕
    BREAMS REGISTRARS AND NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2004-02-24
    ➕
    BREAMS CORPORATE SERVICES appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 84 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 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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

Base Business Park Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Base Business Park Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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BENTWATERS FACILITIES LIMITED
This company · 05053975

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Base Business Park Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% 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
Incorporated2004-02-24
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC35130 — SIC 35130

Registered office

Base Business Park
15 Britannia House
Rendlesham
Suffolk
IP12 2TZ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-09
Last: 2026-02-23

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

D'ARCY, Justin Alexander→
secretary · appointed 2004-03-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
D'ARCY, Justin Alexander→
director · ~55y · appointed 2004-03-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
D'ARCY, Robert John Bruce→
director · ~84y · appointed 2004-03-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BREAMS REGISTRARS AND NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-02-24 · resigned 2004-03-03
Resigned
BREAMS CORPORATE SERVICES→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-02-24 · resigned 2004-03-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
A registered charge—20/04/2015—
outstanding
Fortis Bank Sa-Nv UK Branch
Debenture1 property23/03/2004—
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Recent filings (64 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-28
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-01-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-08
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-07-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-07-09