BRADENHAM HALL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07212022 · ltd · incorporated 2010-04-06
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 12.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
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
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 12.5y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 12.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 6 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
50 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-052024-04-05
Average employees400400

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

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-01-02
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-04-06
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    change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
    address · AD02
  5. 2023-04-05
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2023-04-05
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2022-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-12-30
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-03-30
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-12-31
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-04-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2019-04-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  13. 2019-01-10
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-04-06
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  15. 2018-04-06
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  16. 2018-01-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2014-01-07
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
  18. 2010-04-06
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    Company incorporated
    As BRADENHAM HALL LIMITED
  19. 2010-04-06
    ➕
    ALLHUSEN, Christian Henry appointed
    secretary
  20. 2010-04-06
    ➕
    ALLHUSEN, Benjamin Christian Thomas appointed
    director
  21. 2010-04-06
    ➕
    ALLHUSEN, Christian Henry appointed
    director
  22. 2010-04-06
    ➕
    ALLHUSEN, Matthew John Oliver appointed
    director
  23. 2010-04-06
    ➕
    ALLHUSEN, Penelope Amanda appointed
    director
  24. 2010-04-06
    ➕
    ALLHUSEN, Benjamin Christian Thomas appointed
    director
  25. 2010-04-06
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    ALLHUSEN, Benjamin Christian Thomas resigned
    director
  26. 2010-04-06
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    ALLHUSEN, Penelope Amanda appointed
    director
  27. 2010-04-06
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    ALLHUSEN, Penelope Amanda resigned
    director

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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Penelope Amanda Allhusen
Individual · British · DOB 05/1959 · age 67
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2017
Christian Henry Allhusen
Individual · British · DOB 07/1956 · age 70
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2017

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
Incorporated2010-04-06
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Bradenham Hall Farms
Bradenham
Thetford
Norfolk
IP25 7QR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-05
Last made up to: 2025-04-05
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-18
Last: 2026-04-04

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

ALLHUSEN, Christian Henry→
secretary · appointed 2010-04-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ALLHUSEN, Benjamin Christian Thomas→
director · ~37y · appointed 2010-04-06
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Active
ALLHUSEN, Christian Henry→
director · ~70y · appointed 2010-04-06
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Active
ALLHUSEN, Matthew John Oliver→
director · ~35y · appointed 2010-04-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ALLHUSEN, Penelope Amanda→
director · ~67y · appointed 2010-04-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ALLHUSEN, Benjamin Christian Thomas→
director · ~37y · appointed 2010-04-06 · resigned 2010-04-06
Resigned
ALLHUSEN, Penelope Amanda→
director · ~67y · appointed 2010-04-06 · resigned 2010-04-06
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property07/01/2014—
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Recent filings (50 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-01-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-27
change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2023-04-06
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-04-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-03-30