REDBURN HOUSE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC224730 · ltd · incorporated 2001-10-30

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 20.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

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

Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). 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 20.1y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 20.1 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: medium (79/100)

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

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

61 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Average employees	300	300

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

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2025-08-04
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2024-06-24
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accounts · AA
2023-06-30
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accounts · AA
2022-06-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-22
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accounts · AA
2020-10-05
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accounts · AA
2019-06-24
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accounts · AA
2018-06-21
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accounts · AA
2017-07-05
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accounts · AA
2016-06-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2015-11-22
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2015-06-30
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accounts · AA
2014-11-24
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2014-07-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2013-11-16
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2008-10-23
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THOMPSON, Albert John Ogg resigned
director
2008-10-23
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THOMPSON, Nina Patricia resigned
director
2006-03-27
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
2002-02-19
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DALE, Alexander Nicholas appointed
director
2001-10-30
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Company incorporated
As REDBURN HOUSE LIMITED
2001-10-30
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TUFF, Tracy Ann appointed
secretary
2001-10-30
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TUFF, Tracy Ann appointed
director
2001-10-30
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-10-30
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-10-30
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THOMPSON, Albert John Ogg appointed
director
2001-10-30
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THOMPSON, Nina Patricia appointed
director
2001-10-30
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JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2001-10-30
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JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director

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 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100

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 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Alexander Nicholas Dale Individual · British · DOB 01/1957 · age 69	50–75%	—	50-75% shares	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2001-10-30

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

Duncree House

King Street

Newton Stewart

Wigtownshire

DG8 6DL

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-11

Last: 2025-10-28

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

TUFF, Tracy Ann→

secretary · appointed 2001-10-30

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Active

DALE, Alexander Nicholas→

director · ~69y · appointed 2002-02-19

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Active

TUFF, Tracy Ann→

director · ~65y · appointed 2001-10-30

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Active

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-10-30 · resigned 2001-10-30

Resigned

THOMPSON, Albert John Ogg→

director · ~74y · appointed 2001-10-30 · resigned 2008-10-23

Resigned

THOMPSON, Nina Patricia→

director · ~66y · appointed 2001-10-30 · resigned 2008-10-23

Resigned

JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-10-30 · resigned 2001-10-30

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland	Bond & floating charge	1 property	27/03/2006	—

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