ESKDALE HOTEL LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC420785 · ltd · incorporated 2012-03-30
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.
Why now
Window closing · high confidence
Getting harder to buy — profile has hardened into "well run hard buy" recently.
  • · Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • · Hygiene score: 70 → 90
  • · Opportunity score: 70 → 79
  • · Bankability: 65 → 75
Opportunity decay
hardening · 6-months
Hardening — profile is tightening. If you want to act, do it before the window closes further.
  • · 3 recent signals strengthening vs 0 weakening
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 3 positive signals vs 0 negative.

  • ·Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • ↑Opportunity score: 70 → 79
  • ↑Hygiene score: 70 → 90
  • ↑Bankability: 65 → 75
  • ·Distress / opportunity: speculative → avoid
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Last 180 days

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Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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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 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
31 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Current Liabilities
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£0£43k£87k£130k£173k£217kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets—£216.8k
Current assets—£140.3k
Cash—£131.6k
Net assets—£216.8k
Average employees11—

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
0
filings
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 (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-24
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  2. 2025-02-25
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  3. 2024-02-29
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  4. 2023-02-21
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  5. 2022-02-27
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  6. 2021-04-28
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  7. 2021-04-28
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  8. 2021-02-28
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  9. 2020-02-26
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  10. 2019-02-10
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  11. 2018-03-23
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  12. 2017-02-21
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  13. 2016-03-31
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  14. 2016-01-06
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  15. 2015-04-13
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  16. 2012-03-30
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    Company incorporated
    As ESKDALE HOTEL LTD
  17. 2012-03-30
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    GALLOWAY, John Graham appointed
    director
  18. 2012-03-30
    ➕
    NOONAN, John appointed
    director

Owner dependency

78/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 14 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

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 66. 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 14 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr John Noonan
Individual · British · DOB 09/1960 · age 66
50–75%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting06/04/2016
Mr John Graham Galloway
Individual · British · DOB 12/1965 · age 61
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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2012-03-30
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

Market Place
High Street
Langholm
Dumfriesshire
DG13 0JH

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-13
Last: 2026-03-30

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

GALLOWAY, John Graham→
director · ~61y · appointed 2012-03-30
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Active
NOONAN, John→
director · ~66y · appointed 2012-03-30
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Recent filings (31 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-01
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accounts · AA
2026-02-24
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-07
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2025-02-25
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-29
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2024-02-29
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2023-04-19
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2023-02-21
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2022-04-29
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2022-02-27
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-28
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-04-28
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-04-28
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accounts · AA
2021-02-28
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-03