HOLDHURST FARM ESTATE LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
06119015 · ltd · incorporated 2007-02-20
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
PursueConservative operator with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).
Data confidence
Overall: medium (75/100)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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
11 officers (5 active, 11 linked, 7 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
17 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
63 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation
Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Profitable
Profit before tax £938,000
Key financials
1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|
| Gross profit | £908.0k |
| Profit before tax | £938.0k |
| Average employees | 7 |
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
3
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 officers
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand
- 2026-01-19📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2026-01-13➕O'SULLIVAN, Luke James Roderic appointeddirector
- 2025-12-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2025-05-03📄appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP03
- 2025-05-03📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2025-05-03📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2025-04-25➕O'SULLIVAN, Luke James Roderic appointedsecretary
- 2025-04-25➖WOOD, Rachel resignedsecretary
- 2025-04-25➖WOOD, Rachel resigneddirector
- 2024-11-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2024-04-17📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-09-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-08-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-05-06📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2021-08-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-10-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-08-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-06-13📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2015-08-01➕WOOD, Rachel appointeddirector
- 2014-08-22➕JAMES, Fawn Ilona appointeddirector
- 2012-09-14➕EGGLENTON, Melvyn John appointeddirector
- 2011-07-01➕WOOD, Rachel appointedsecretary
- 2011-06-01➖JAMES, John resignedsecretary
- 2010-03-31➖QUINN, Mark Philip Wyndham resigneddirector
- 2009-01-08➕JAMES, John appointeddirector
- 2009-01-08➕JAMES, John appointedsecretary
- 2009-01-08➖WARDEN, John Blackie resignedsecretary
- 2009-01-08➖WARDEN, John Blackie resigneddirector
- 2007-02-20🏢Company incorporatedAs HOLDHURST FARM ESTATE LIMITED
- 2007-02-20➕WARDEN, John Blackie appointedsecretary
- 2007-02-20➕QUINN, Mark Philip Wyndham appointeddirector
- 2007-02-20➕WARDEN, John Blackie appointeddirector
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
73/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
- 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.)
Group structure
Soho Estates Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.
🏛️ultimate parent
Soho Estates Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
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HOLDHURST FARM ESTATE LIMITED
This company · 06119015
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%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Soho Estates Holdings Limited Corporate entity | 75–100% | — | 75-100% shares | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2007-02-20
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Registered office
Level 8, Ilona Rose House Level 8, Ilona Rose House
Manette Street
London
W1D 4AL
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-19
Last: 2026-02-05
Officers (5 active · 6 resigned)
O'SULLIVAN, Luke James Roderic→
Activesecretary · appointed 2025-04-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
EGGLENTON, Melvyn John→
Activedirector · ~69y · appointed 2012-09-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
JAMES, Fawn Ilona→
Activedirector · ~40y · appointed 2014-08-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
O'SULLIVAN, Luke James Roderic→
Activedirector · ~45y · appointed 2026-01-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
JAMES, John→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2009-01-08 · resigned 2011-06-01
WARDEN, John Blackie→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2007-02-20 · resigned 2009-01-08
WOOD, Rachel→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2011-07-01 · resigned 2025-04-25
QUINN, Mark Philip Wyndham→
Resigneddirector · ~62y · appointed 2007-02-20 · resigned 2010-03-31
WARDEN, John Blackie→
Resigneddirector · ~81y · appointed 2007-02-20 · resigned 2009-01-08
WOOD, Rachel→
Resigneddirector · ~50y · appointed 2015-08-01 · resigned 2025-04-25
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Recent filings (63 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-06
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2026-01-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-12-17
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2025-05-03
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-05-03
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-05-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-11-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-04-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-05
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-05-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-21