ARPL ARCHITECTS LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC116832 · ltd · incorporated 1989-03-15
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 33.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Architectural activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 67). 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

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 33.4y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 33.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
18 officers (4 active, 18 linked, 14 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
111 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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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jun 2023Jun 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-06-302023-06-30
Average employees700800

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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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 (44 events)Click to expand
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  2. 2024-03-28
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  3. 2023-06-29
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  4. 2022-06-30
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  5. 2021-04-05
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  6. 2020-05-26
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  7. 2019-03-29
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  8. 2018-03-29
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  9. 2017-03-29
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  10. 2016-03-31
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  11. 2016-01-05
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  12. 2015-03-31
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  13. 2015-01-06
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  14. 2014-03-25
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  15. 2014-02-11
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  16. 2013-10-01
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    LORIMER, Patrick James resigned
    director
  17. 2009-03-26
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    Charge satisfied #1
  18. 2009-01-19
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    GILLILAND, Robert Daniel appointed
    secretary
  19. 2009-01-19
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    LORIMER, Caroline resigned
    secretary
  20. 2004-06-30
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    DRUMMOND, Peter resigned
    director
  21. 2003-03-18
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    DEAN, Leslie John Charles resigned
    director
  22. 2003-03-18
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    GRANT, James resigned
    director
  23. 2002-07-11
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  24. 2001-12-01
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    CADIE, Rebecca Mary appointed
    director
  25. 2000-05-01
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    FLEMING, Gordon appointed
    director
  26. 2000-05-01
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    DEAN, Leslie John Charles appointed
    director
  27. 2000-05-01
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    DRUMMOND, Peter appointed
    director
  28. 1998-05-15
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    GILLILAND, Robert Daniel appointed
    director
  29. 1998-05-15
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    GRANT, James appointed
    director
  30. 1995-04-20
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    LORIMER, Caroline appointed
    secretary
  31. 1995-04-20
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    LORIMER, Patrick James resigned
    secretary
  32. 1995-04-20
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    DOONAN, Desmond resigned
    director
  33. 1995-04-20
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    LAMERTON, Timothy William resigned
    director
  34. 1995-04-20
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    RICHARDSON, Anthony George resigned
    director
  35. 1995-04-20
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    WRIGHT, Crispin Andrew resigned
    director
  36. 1995-01-03
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    PILLING, Rosalind Clare resigned
    director
  37. 1992-12-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  38. 1992-03-15
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    BURNESS SOLICITORS resigned
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  39. 1992-03-15
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    PIA, Paul Dominic resigned
    director
  40. 1992-03-15
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    WOOD, Malcolm James resigned
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  41. 1989-03-15
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    Company incorporated
    As ARPL ARCHITECTS LTD.
  42. 1989-03-15
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    BURNESS SOLICITORS appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  43. 1989-03-15
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    PIA, Paul Dominic appointed
    director
  44. 1989-03-15
    ➕
    WOOD, Malcolm James appointed
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100
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 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 37 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

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ms Rebecca Mary Cadie
Individual · British · DOB 07/1959 · age 67
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr Robert Daniel Gilliland
Individual · British · DOB 01/1968 · age 58
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr Gordon Fleming
Individual · British · DOB 02/1960 · age 66
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Advanced scoring suite

Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1989-03-15
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC71111 — Architectural activities

Registered office

11 Wellington Square
Ayr
KA7 1EN

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-15
Last: 2026-01-01

Officers (4 active · 14 resigned)

GILLILAND, Robert Daniel→
secretary · appointed 2009-01-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CADIE, Rebecca Mary→
director · ~67y · appointed 2001-12-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FLEMING, Gordon→
director · ~66y · appointed 2000-05-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GILLILAND, Robert Daniel→
director · ~58y · appointed 1998-05-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LORIMER, Caroline→
secretary · appointed 1995-04-20 · resigned 2009-01-19
Resigned
LORIMER, Patrick James→
secretary · resigned 1995-04-20
Resigned
BURNESS SOLICITORS→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1989-03-15 · resigned 1992-03-15
Resigned
DEAN, Leslie John Charles→
director · ~67y · appointed 2000-05-01 · resigned 2003-03-18
Resigned
DOONAN, Desmond→
director · ~80y · resigned 1995-04-20
Resigned
DRUMMOND, Peter→
director · ~57y · appointed 2000-05-01 · resigned 2004-06-30
Resigned
GRANT, James→
director · ~73y · appointed 1998-05-15 · resigned 2003-03-18
Resigned
LAMERTON, Timothy William→
director · ~75y · resigned 1995-04-20
Resigned
LORIMER, Patrick James→
director · ~80y · resigned 2013-10-01
Resigned
PIA, Paul Dominic→
director · ~79y · appointed 1989-03-15 · resigned 1992-03-15
Resigned
PILLING, Rosalind Clare→
director · ~74y · resigned 1995-01-03
Resigned
RICHARDSON, Anthony George→
director · ~90y · resigned 1995-04-20
Resigned
WOOD, Malcolm James→
nominee-director · ~71y · appointed 1989-03-15 · resigned 1992-03-15
Resigned
WRIGHT, Crispin Andrew→
director · ~78y · resigned 1995-04-20
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property11/07/2002—
satisfied
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Floating charge1 property15/12/199226/03/2009
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Recent filings (111 total)

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2026-02-18
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2025-03-31
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2025-03-17
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2024-03-28
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2024-02-06
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2023-06-29
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2023-01-05
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2022-06-30
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2022-02-22
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2021-04-05
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2021-01-13
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2020-05-26
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2020-01-08
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2019-03-29
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