CRAIGANTLET FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
NI004897 · ltd · incorporated 1961-03-28
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 26.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£4.92M
year to Jan 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 26.0y

80/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 26.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (3 active, 10 linked, 8 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
169 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.

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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 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £177,070

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-01-31
Turnover£4.92M
Gross profit£3.71M
Operating profit£113.8k
Profit before tax£177.1k
Average employees9600

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-23
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  2. 2024-11-14
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  3. 2024-02-06
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  4. 2023-10-26
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  5. 2023-04-24
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  6. 2023-01-23
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  7. 2022-02-01
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  8. 2022-01-27
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  9. 2021-10-01
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  10. 2021-03-11
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  11. 2020-11-04
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  12. 2020-10-20
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  13. 2020-01-28
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  14. 2019-11-15
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  15. 2019-11-15
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  16. 2019-11-15
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    Charge satisfied #2
  17. 2019-11-15
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    Charge satisfied #1
  18. 2019-11-14
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  19. 2019-11-14
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  20. 2019-11-14
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  21. 2019-10-31
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    BEVERLAND, Megan appointed
    director
  22. 2019-10-23
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    BEVERLAND, Charles Ferris resigned
    director
  23. 2019-10-23
    ➖
    BEVERLAND, David Edward resigned
    director
  24. 2019-10-23
    ➖
    BEVERLAND, Shaun Richard resigned
    director
  25. 2019-10-14
    ➖
    BEVERLAND, Charles Ferris resigned
    director
  26. 2016-10-25
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    BEVERLAND, Charles Ferris appointed
    director
  27. 2016-10-25
    ➕
    BEVERLAND, David Edward appointed
    director
  28. 2016-10-25
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    BEVERLAND, Shaun Richard appointed
    director
  29. 2012-11-09
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    BEVERLAND, Norah Elizabeth resigned
    director
  30. 2009-05-20
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    BEVERLAND, Charles Junior resigned
    director
  31. 2009-03-10
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    WEIR, Geoffrey appointed
    secretary
  32. 2009-03-10
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    WEIR, Geoffrey Roy appointed
    director
  33. 2009-03-10
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    BEVERLAND, Charles Junior resigned
    secretary
  34. 2000-05-30
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Ulster Bank Markets
  35. 2000-05-30
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Ulster Bank Limited
  36. 1961-03-28
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    Company incorporated
    As CRAIGANTLET FARMS LIMITED

Owner dependency

83/100
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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.

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 66. 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 17 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 65 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.)

Group structure

Nugent Estates Trading Company Limited holds majority control (50-75%). Likely parent but not wholly-owned.

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Nugent Estates Trading Company Limited
Corporate parent · holds 50-75% shares · board control
majority
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CRAIGANTLET FARMS LIMITED
This company · NI004897

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Nugent Estates Trading Company Limited
Corporate entity
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1961-03-28
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

La Mon Hotel And Country Club 41 Gransha Road
Comber
Newtownards
BT23 5RF
Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-27
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-02
Last: 2026-02-16

Officers (3 active · 7 resigned)

WEIR, Geoffrey→
secretary · appointed 2009-03-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BEVERLAND, Megan→
director · ~38y · appointed 2019-10-31
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Active
WEIR, Geoffrey Roy→
director · ~66y · appointed 2009-03-10
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Active
BEVERLAND, Charles Junior→
secretary · resigned 2009-03-10
Resigned
BEVERLAND, Charles Ferris→
director · ~36y · appointed 2016-10-25 · resigned 2019-10-23
Resigned
BEVERLAND, Charles Junior→
director · ~65y · resigned 2009-05-20
Resigned
BEVERLAND, Charles Ferris→
director · ~101y · resigned 2019-10-14
Resigned
BEVERLAND, David Edward→
director · ~71y · appointed 2016-10-25 · resigned 2019-10-23
Resigned
BEVERLAND, Norah Elizabeth→
director · ~102y · resigned 2012-11-09
Resigned
BEVERLAND, Shaun Richard→
director · ~69y · appointed 2016-10-25 · resigned 2019-10-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
NatWest Group
Ulster Bank Markets / Ulster Bank Limited
Mortgage or charge2 properties30/05/200015/11/2019
satisfied
NatWest Group
Ulster Bank Limited / Ulster Bank Markets
Mortgage or charge1 property30/05/200015/11/2019

Recent filings (169 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2025-10-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2024-11-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2024-02-06
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-10-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-05
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-01-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-01
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officers · AP01
2022-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-13