STRATHMORE ESTATES DEVELOPMENT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC266274 · ltd · incorporated 2004-04-09
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 9.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35110
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 47990Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 9.7y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 9.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 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
11 officers (3 active, 11 linked, 5 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
77 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.

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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees200200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (39 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-09-16
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  3. 2025-09-15
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  4. 2025-04-10
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  5. 2025-03-18
    ➕
    STRATHMORE & KINGHORNE, Earl Of appointed
    secretary
  6. 2025-03-18
    ➖
    RYSAFFE SECRETARIES resigned
    corporate-secretary
  7. 2024-11-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-11-08
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2024-04-02
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  10. 2023-11-22
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  11. 2023-08-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2022-08-05
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  13. 2022-08-05
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  14. 2022-07-25
    ➕
    JARDINE PATERSON, Robert Jeremy appointed
    director
  15. 2022-07-25
    ➖
    GORDON, John David resigned
    director
  16. 2022-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2021-11-18
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  18. 2021-11-18
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    Charge satisfied #1
  19. 2021-08-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2020-09-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2019-06-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  22. 2018-07-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  23. 2016-08-12
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  24. 2011-04-13
    ➖
    CHIENE & TAIT resigned
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2011-04-13
    ➕
    RYSAFFE SECRETARIES appointed
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2010-11-15
    ➖
    BOWES-LYON, David James resigned
    director
  27. 2010-11-15
    ➕
    GORDON, John David appointed
    director
  28. 2006-05-01
    ➕
    YOUNGER, James Henry appointed
    director
  29. 2006-05-01
    ➖
    HALDANE, James Martin resigned
    director
  30. 2004-04-22
    ➖
    BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  31. 2004-04-22
    ➕
    CHIENE & TAIT appointed
    corporate-secretary
  32. 2004-04-22
    ➕
    BOWES-LYON, David James appointed
    director
  33. 2004-04-22
    ➕
    HALDANE, James Martin appointed
    director
  34. 2004-04-22
    ➖
    BLP CREATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  35. 2004-04-22
    ➖
    BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  36. 2004-04-09
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As STRATHMORE ESTATES DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
  37. 2004-04-09
    ➕
    BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  38. 2004-04-09
    ➕
    BLP CREATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  39. 2004-04-09
    ➕
    BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED appointed
    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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

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.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Strathmore Estates (Holdings) Ltd holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Strathmore Estates (Holdings) Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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STRATHMORE ESTATES DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
This company · SC266274

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Strathmore Estates (Holdings) Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2004-04-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC35110 — SIC 35110

Registered office

Level 4,9 Haymarket Square
Edinburgh
EH3 8RY
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-23
Last: 2026-04-09

Officers (3 active · 8 resigned)

STRATHMORE & KINGHORNE, Earl Of→
secretary · appointed 2025-03-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JARDINE PATERSON, Robert Jeremy→
director · ~69y · appointed 2022-07-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
YOUNGER, James Henry→
director · ~61y · appointed 2006-05-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-04-09 · resigned 2004-04-22
Resigned
CHIENE & TAIT→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2004-04-22 · resigned 2011-04-13
Resigned
RYSAFFE SECRETARIES→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2011-04-13 · resigned 2025-03-18
Resigned
BOWES-LYON, David James→
director · ~79y · appointed 2004-04-22 · resigned 2010-11-15
Resigned
GORDON, John David→
director · ~64y · appointed 2010-11-15 · resigned 2022-07-25
Resigned
HALDANE, James Martin→
director · ~85y · appointed 2004-04-22 · resigned 2006-05-01
Resigned
BLP CREATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-04-09 · resigned 2004-04-22
Resigned
BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-04-09 · resigned 2004-04-22
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—12/08/201618/11/2021

Recent filings (77 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-13
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2025-09-16
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-09-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-04-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-27
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-11-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-11
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2024-04-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-11-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-18
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-08-05
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-08-05