PIERSLAND HOUSE HOTEL COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC057933 · ltd · incorporated 1975-06-09

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

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jan 2025

Net worth

£2.99M

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation

Sector: Accommodation & food service

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 84). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 4 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (45/100).

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Refinance opportunity

10 live charges · 4 lenders · oldest 45.3y

25/100

too messy

Structure is too messy for a clean refinance right now — clean up first or expect bespoke terms.

· Oldest live charge is 45.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 4 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 50/100 (high).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

Lenders & charges

10 charges (10/10 with lender, 10/10 with type)

Directors & officers

9 officers (8 active, 9 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

127 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

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 £2,989,783

Cash YoY

-14%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£560k

↓ 14% YoY

Net Worth

£3.0m

↑ 9.1% YoY

Current Assets

£684k

↓ 10% YoY

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-01-31	2024-01-31
Total assets	£3.14M	£3.02M
Current assets	£684.2k	£761.4k
Cash	£560.0k	£655.0k
Debtors	£81.4k	£72.8k
Net assets	£2.99M	£2.74M

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

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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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (43 events)Click to expand

2025-10-31
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accounts · AA
2025-09-18
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-27
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accounts · AA
2023-09-14
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officers · CH01
2023-09-14
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mortgage · MR04
2023-09-14
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mortgage · MR04
2023-09-14
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Charge satisfied #13
2023-09-14
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Charge satisfied #6
2023-09-13
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accounts · AA
2022-09-07
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accounts · AA
2021-10-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-10-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-09-16
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officers · CH03
2019-09-16
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officers · CH01
2019-09-16
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officers · CH01
2019-09-16
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officers · CH01
2019-09-16
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2019-09-16
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officers · CH01
2019-09-16
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2012-07-31
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BROWN, Rachael Kristina appointed
director
2010-07-29
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Charge satisfied #12
2003-01-31
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LEE, Michael William resigned
director
2000-02-01
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RAE, John Lindsay appointed
director
1999-02-01
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KUHLER, Karel Pieter Willem appointed
director
1998-02-12
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BROWN, Janice Karen appointed
director
1998-02-12
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LEE, Michael William appointed
director
1998-01-05
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Charge satisfied #14
1994-05-24
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Charge registered #14
Lender: Bass Brewers Limited
1994-05-24
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Charge registered #13
Lender: Bass Brewers Limited
1988-08-25
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Charge registered #12
Lender: Tennent Caledonian Breweries LTD
1988-04-27
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Charge satisfied #2
1988-02-11
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Charge satisfied #1
1987-12-15
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Charge satisfied #4
1987-12-15
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Charge satisfied #3
1987-06-26
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Charge registered #7
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1987-06-26
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Charge registered #6
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1986-09-12
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Charge registered #5
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1984-08-22
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Scottish & Newcastle Breweries PLC
1984-06-28
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Charge registered #3
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1981-01-30
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Tennent Caledonian Breweries LTD
1981-01-21
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Tennent Caledonian Breweries LTD
1975-06-09
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Company incorporated
As PIERSLAND HOUSE HOTEL COMPANY LIMITED

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

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 84 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 51 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

1 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr John Adam Brown Individual · British · DOB 08/1942 · age 84	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	05/09/2016

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1975-06-09

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

15 Craigend Road

Troon

KA10 6HD

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-10-31

Last made up to: 2025-01-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-02

Last: 2025-09-18