DENCHWORTH LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05998243 · ltd · incorporated 2006-11-14
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 01500SIC 01500
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Company profile
address, 2 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, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
43 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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

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Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-16
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  2. 2024-08-07
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  3. 2023-07-14
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  4. 2022-08-10
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  5. 2021-08-10
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  6. 2020-08-18
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  7. 2019-11-28
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  8. 2018-10-08
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  9. 2017-07-28
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  10. 2016-10-03
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  11. 2015-12-15
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  12. 2015-12-09
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  13. 2014-12-11
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  14. 2014-10-27
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  15. 2014-01-28
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  16. 2006-11-14
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    Company incorporated
    As DENCHWORTH LIMITED
  17. 2006-11-14
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    ABBATT, Ailsa Patricia appointed
    secretary
  18. 2006-11-14
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    ABBATT, Ailsa Patricia appointed
    director
  19. 2006-11-14
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    ABBATT, Philip David, Mr. appointed
    director
  20. 2006-11-14
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    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2006-11-14
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    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
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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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr. Philip David Abbatt
Individual · United Kingdom · DOB 02/1957 · age 69
——sig. influencesignificant influence14/11/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-11-14
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Potterne Park Farm
Potterne
Devizes
Wiltshire
SN10 5QT

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-28
Last: 2025-11-14

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ABBATT, Ailsa Patricia→
secretary · appointed 2006-11-14
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Active
ABBATT, Ailsa Patricia→
director · ~69y · appointed 2006-11-14
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Active
ABBATT, Philip David, Mr.→
director · ~69y · appointed 2006-11-14
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Active
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-11-14 · resigned 2006-11-14
Resigned

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Recent filings (43 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-26
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2025-09-16
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2024-11-23
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2024-08-07
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2023-11-19
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2023-07-14
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2022-11-18
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2022-08-10
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2021-12-06
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2021-08-10
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2020-11-24
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2020-08-18
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2019-11-28
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2019-11-15
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2018-11-27