CLAYFIELD HOUSE MANAGEMENT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05174024 · ltd · incorporated 2004-07-08
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
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
52 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-29
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  5. 2023-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-07-08
    ➖
    LAW, Catherine resigned
    director
  10. 2019-07-08
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2019-03-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-04-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-06-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-08-05
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2015-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  17. 2004-07-08
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    Company incorporated
    As CLAYFIELD HOUSE MANAGEMENT LIMITED
  18. 2004-07-08
    ➕
    WILKINS, Sean appointed
    secretary
  19. 2004-07-08
    ➕
    BOND, Suzanne Jane appointed
    director
  20. 2004-07-08
    ➕
    FERGUSON, Andrew John appointed
    director
  21. 2004-07-08
    ➕
    LAW, Catherine appointed
    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 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — 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 70 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2004-07-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

5 Morris Hall Cottages
Berwick-Upon-Tweed
Northumberland
TD15 2JY
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-22
Last: 2025-07-08

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

WILKINS, Sean→
secretary · appointed 2004-07-08
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Active
BOND, Suzanne Jane→
director · ~54y · appointed 2004-07-08
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Active
FERGUSON, Andrew John→
director · ~70y · appointed 2004-07-08
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Active
LAW, Catherine→
director · ~63y · appointed 2004-07-08 · resigned 2019-07-08
Resigned

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Recent filings (52 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2026-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-04-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-04-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-25
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-03-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2020-04-30
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2019-07-08