TERRAUGHTIE FARMING COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC041723 · ltd · incorporated 1965-02-11
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 37.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£840.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
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 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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

1 live charge · oldest 37.4y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 37.4 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: high (82/100)

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
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
100 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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £840,915
Cash YoY
+219%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£64k
↑ 219% YoY
Net Worth
£841k
↑ 4.1% YoY
Current Assets
£372k
↓ 2.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£168k£336k£505k£673k£841kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£1.03M£1.03M
Current assets£371.8k£381.2k
Cash£63.8k£20.0k
Debtors£100.4k£142.3k
Net assets£840.9k£808.0k

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

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1 signal 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
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-25
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  3. 2025-11-11
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  4. 2024-12-11
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  5. 2024-04-02
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  6. 2023-11-24
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  7. 2022-12-22
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  8. 2021-12-19
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  9. 2021-05-17
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  10. 2021-05-17
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  11. 2020-12-30
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  12. 2019-09-26
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  13. 2018-11-30
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  14. 2018-01-07
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  15. 2017-01-04
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  16. 2016-05-11
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  17. 2011-12-29
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    BARBOUR, Douglas Leslie resigned
    director
  18. 2011-12-29
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    BARBOUR, Margaret Catherine resigned
    director
  19. 2009-07-30
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    BARBOUR, Deana Janette appointed
    director
  20. 1998-12-24
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    BARBOUR, Deana Janette appointed
    secretary
  21. 1998-12-24
    ➖
    BARBOUR, Douglas Leslie resigned
    secretary
  22. 1988-12-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  23. 1965-02-11
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    Company incorporated
    As TERRAUGHTIE FARMING COMPANY LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100
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 68 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 68. 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 61 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
Mrs Deana Janette Barbour
Individual · British · DOB 03/1961 · age 65
25–50%
—25-50% shares04/01/2021
Mr Robert James Barbour
Individual · British · DOB 07/1958 · age 68
25–50%
—25-50% shares11/05/2017

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
Incorporated1965-02-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

24-36 Buccleuch Street
Dumfries
Scotland
DG1 2AL
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-25
Last: 2025-05-11

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

BARBOUR, Deana Janette→
secretary · appointed 1998-12-24
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Active
BARBOUR, Deana Janette→
director · ~65y · appointed 2009-07-30
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Active
BARBOUR, Robert James→
director · ~68y
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Active
BARBOUR, Douglas Leslie→
secretary · resigned 1998-12-24
Resigned
BARBOUR, Douglas Leslie→
director · ~100y · resigned 2011-12-29
Resigned
BARBOUR, Margaret Catherine→
director · ~95y · resigned 2011-12-29
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 Bank PLC
Mortgage1 property14/12/1988—
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Recent filings (100 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-25
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-13
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-04-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-17
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-05-17
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-05-17