ARCHITECTURAL METAL CRAFTSMEN LTD
🌳Matureactive
06014745 · ltd · incorporated 2006-11-30
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 19.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.71M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 25990
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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 · oldest 19.3y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 19.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (78/100)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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
4 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
54 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 · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £1,709,747
Cash YoY
+20%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£1.3m
↑ 20% YoY
Net Worth
£1.7m
↑ 7.8% YoY
Current Assets
£1.8m
↑ 41% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £1.71M | £1.59M |
| Current assets | £1.80M | £1.27M |
| Cash | £1.29M | £1.07M |
| Debtors | £503.6k | £200.0k |
| Net assets | £1.71M | £1.59M |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-11-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-10-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-03📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2019-09-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-10-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-09-17📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2018-09-17📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2018-08-01📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2018-07-31➖PERKINS, Glenn resigneddirector
- 2017-12-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-06-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2015-12-09📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2010-01-29🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2007-03-08🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
- 2006-11-30🏢Company incorporatedAs ARCHITECTURAL METAL CRAFTSMEN LTD
- 2006-11-30➕ODELL, Scott Aaron appointedsecretary
- 2006-11-30➕BREALEY, Mark James appointeddirector
- 2006-11-30➕DOLPHIN, Stephen appointeddirector
- 2006-11-30➕MORTON, Duncan James appointeddirector
- 2006-11-30➕ODELL, Scott Aaron appointeddirector
- 2006-11-30➕PERKINS, Glenn appointeddirector
Owner dependency
58/100
Moderate — manageable with handoverSome founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.
FACTORS
- -4 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.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
63/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
- 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
4 active beneficial owners · fragmented| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Scott Aaron Odell Individual · British · DOB 08/1973 · age 53 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 29/11/2016 |
Mr Stephen Dolphin Individual · British · DOB 07/1965 · age 61 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 29/11/2016 |
Mr Mark James Brealey Individual · British · DOB 04/1975 · age 51 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 29/11/2016 |
Mr Duncan James Morton Individual · British · DOB 06/1967 · age 59 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 29/11/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mr Glenn Perkinsceased 31/07/2018· significant influence
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-11-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25990 — SIC 25990
Registered office
155 Wellingborough Road
Rushden
Northants
NN10 9TB
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-14
Last: 2025-11-30
Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)
ODELL, Scott Aaron→
Activesecretary · appointed 2006-11-30
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BREALEY, Mark James→
Activedirector · ~51y · appointed 2006-11-30
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DOLPHIN, Stephen→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2006-11-30
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MORTON, Duncan James→
Activedirector · ~59y · appointed 2006-11-30
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ODELL, Scott Aaron→
Activedirector · ~53y · appointed 2006-11-30
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PERKINS, Glenn→
Resigneddirector · ~60y · appointed 2006-11-30 · resigned 2018-07-31
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Legal mortgage | 1 property | 29/01/2010 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 08/03/2007 | — |
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Recent filings (54 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-01
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2019-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-02