BRIDGE HOUSE BREWERY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07133880 · ltd · incorporated 2010-01-22
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
£-12.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of beer
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (74/100)

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
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 6 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
50 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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 · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £12,343

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£3k
Net Worth
-£12k
Current Assets
£33k
Current Liabilities
—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-31
Total assets£4.6k
Current assets£33.0k
Cash£2.7k
Debtors£27.8k
Net assets£-12.3k

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 2 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-26
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  2. 2025-12-28
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  4. 2024-01-08
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  5. 2023-01-30
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  6. 2022-12-23
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  7. 2021-12-30
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  8. 2021-01-08
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  9. 2019-12-19
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  10. 2018-12-21
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  11. 2018-03-31
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  12. 2017-01-31
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  13. 2016-12-20
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  14. 2016-03-22
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  15. 2016-02-03
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  16. 2014-10-23
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    STOCKS, David Ayrton appointed
    director
  17. 2011-03-16
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    CLOUGH, Andrew appointed
    director
  18. 2011-03-16
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    HALLIDAY, David Jonathan appointed
    director
  19. 2011-03-16
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    KELLY, Mark Anthony appointed
    director
  20. 2011-03-16
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    REYNOLDSON, Grahame Alan resigned
    director
  21. 2010-01-22
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    Company incorporated
    As BRIDGE HOUSE BREWERY LIMITED
  22. 2010-01-22
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    HEMMINGS, Stephen David appointed
    director
  23. 2010-01-22
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    HEMMINGS, Stephen David resigned
    director
  24. 2010-01-22
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    REYNOLDSON, Grahame Alan appointed
    director

Owner dependency

65/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

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 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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 Mark Anthony Kelly
Individual · British · DOB 07/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting22/01/2017

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
Incorporated2010-01-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC11050 — Manufacture of beer

Registered office

WILKINSON AND PARTNERS
Fairfax House 6a Mill Field Road Cottingley Business Park
Cottingley Bingley
West Yorkshire
BD16 1PY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-27
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-05
Last: 2026-01-22

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

CLOUGH, Andrew→
director · ~69y · appointed 2011-03-16
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Active
HALLIDAY, David Jonathan→
director · ~56y · appointed 2011-03-16
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Active
KELLY, Mark Anthony→
director · ~62y · appointed 2011-03-16
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Active
STOCKS, David Ayrton→
director · ~62y · appointed 2014-10-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEMMINGS, Stephen David→
director · ~71y · appointed 2010-01-22 · resigned 2010-01-22
Resigned
REYNOLDSON, Grahame Alan→
director · ~63y · appointed 2010-01-22 · resigned 2011-03-16
Resigned

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Recent filings (50 total)

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2025-01-22
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2024-12-26
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2024-01-23
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2024-01-08
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2023-01-30
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2023-01-23
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2022-12-23
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2022-01-24
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2021-12-30
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2021-01-26
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