BALTIC WHARF LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

05887604 · ltd · incorporated 2006-07-26

Investment thesis

Property vehicle with leveraged stack — refinance / partial-release angle.

Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.

Why risky: Multiple lenders to manage; inter-creditor friction and partial-release cost possible.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 19.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Aug 2025

Net worth

£799.2k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 52101

Sector: Transportation & storage

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

68209Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 19.8y

70/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 19.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

12 officers (6 active, 12 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

19 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

79 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £799,224

Net assets shrinking

Down £31,557 YoY

Cash YoY

+0%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£300

~ YoY

Net Worth

£799k

↓ 3.8% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-08-31	2024-08-31
Cash	£300	£300
Net assets	£799.2k	£830.8k

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (41 events)Click to expand

2026-05-11
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accounts · AA
2024-08-12
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officers · CH01
2024-08-09
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officers · CH01
2024-08-09
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officers · CH01
2024-04-30
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accounts · AA
2023-03-13
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accounts · AA
2022-01-17
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2021-02-16
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2020-02-19
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accounts · AA
2019-05-08
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accounts · AA
2018-08-06
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2018-08-06
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2018-02-23
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accounts · AA
2018-01-03
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2017-09-12
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2017-09-12
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2016-10-18
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Charge satisfied #1
2016-04-14
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Charge satisfied #2
2015-12-31
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ROBSON, Peter resigned
director
2015-10-09
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2011-09-01
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DENNIS, Julie appointed
director
2011-09-01
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MITTLER, Catherine Lucy appointed
director
2011-09-01
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YALLOP, Rosemary Jane appointed
director
2010-08-31
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HUGHES, Timothy James resigned
director
2010-06-30
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HARVEY, Christopher William resigned
secretary
2008-09-01
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HUGHES, Timothy James appointed
director
2008-04-05
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ELLYATT, Simon John resigned
director
2007-07-30
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ROBSON, Peter appointed
director
2006-11-03
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ELLYATT, Simon John appointed
director
2006-09-29
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
2006-09-29
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
2006-08-30
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DENNIS, Ian Graeme appointed
director
2006-08-30
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MITTLER, Stephen John appointed
director
2006-08-30
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YALLOP, John Mark appointed
director
2006-08-30
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HARVEY, Christopher William appointed
secretary
2006-07-26
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Company incorporated
As BALTIC WHARF LIMITED
2006-07-26
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SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2006-07-26
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SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2006-07-26
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CORPORATE APPOINTMENTS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2006-07-26
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CORPORATE APPOINTMENTS LIMITED resigned
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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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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.

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2006-07-26

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC52101 — SIC 52101

Registered office

St Peters Quay

Totnes

Devon

TQ9 5EW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-05-31

Last made up to: 2025-08-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-09

Last: 2025-07-26