HYDROPARK LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC130176 · ltd · incorporated 1991-02-21

Investment thesis

Unencumbered property vehicle — clean asset-backed target with refinance headroom.

Why interesting: Property-holding entity with no live charges; straightforward asset-backed case.

Why risky: Values depend on title and valuation; property-specific market exposure.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

£3.18M

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Buying and selling of own real estate

Sector: Real estate

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

68209Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

88 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £3,179,281

Cash YoY

+21%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.2m

↑ 21% YoY

Net Worth

£3.2m

↑ 8.3% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Cash	£1.19M	£985.2k
Net assets	£3.18M	£2.94M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-07-24
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2024-09-18
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2023-07-31
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accounts · AA
2022-04-29
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2021-03-24
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2020-04-06
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accounts · AA
2019-05-07
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accounts · AA
2018-06-13
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2018-04-23
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accounts · AA
2017-05-31
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accounts · AA
2016-04-25
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accounts · AA
2016-02-16
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annual-return · AR01
2015-05-30
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accounts · AA
2015-02-26
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2015-02-26
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
1991-02-21
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Company incorporated
As HYDROPARK LIMITED
1991-02-21
➕
BARRON, Roderick appointed
secretary
1991-02-21
➕
BARRON, Janette Ruth appointed
director
1991-02-21
➕
BARRON, Roderick appointed
director
1991-02-21
➕
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1991-02-21
➖
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1991-02-21
➕
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
1991-02-21
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JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director

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 35 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100

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 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 35 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 35 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Roderick Barron Individual · British · DOB 09/1950 · age 76	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mrs Janette Ruth Barron Individual · British · DOB 02/1955 · age 71	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated1991-02-21

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC68100 — Buying and selling of own real estate

Registered office

Ascreavie House Ascreavie

Kingoldrum

Kirriemuir

Angus

DD8 5HA

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-12

Last: 2026-01-29

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

BARRON, Roderick→

secretary · appointed 1991-02-21

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Active

BARRON, Janette Ruth→

director · ~71y · appointed 1991-02-21

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Active

BARRON, Roderick→

director · ~76y · appointed 1991-02-21

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Active

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1991-02-21 · resigned 1991-02-21

Resigned

JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1991-02-21 · resigned 1991-02-21

Resigned

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