ROCKNOWE INTERIORS LIMITED

📈Growthactive
SC489276 · ltd · incorporated 2014-10-20
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 9.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other building completion and finishing
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 9.4y

95/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 9.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (73/100)

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
35 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Profitable
Profit before tax £243,078

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Nov 2023Nov 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-11-302023-11-30
Gross profit£714.8k£529.5k
Profit before tax£243.1k£92.0k
Average employees1100600

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

5 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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-05-22
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  3. 2023-02-14
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  4. 2022-08-22
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-03-10
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    capital · SH01
  6. 2022-03-09
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    capital · SH01
  7. 2021-03-23
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-03-16
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    capital · SH01
  9. 2020-04-29
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-08-06
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-04-15
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    officers · CH01
  12. 2019-04-15
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    officers · CH01
  13. 2018-04-11
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-06-13
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-01-25
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    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2017-01-06
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2016-12-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  18. 2014-10-20
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    Company incorporated
    As ROCKNOWE INTERIORS LIMITED
  19. 2014-10-20
    ➕
    BROWNE, David Russell appointed
    director
  20. 2014-10-20
    ➕
    BROWNE, June Elaine appointed
    director
  21. 2014-10-20
    ➕
    D'AMBROSIO, David Stephen appointed
    director
  22. 2014-10-20
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    D'AMBROSIO, Judith Elaine appointed
    director

Owner dependency

63/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2014-10-20
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC43390 — Other building completion and finishing

Registered office

Unit 2 Ainslie Street
West Pifkerro Industrial Estate
Broughty Ferry
Dundee
DD5 3RR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-19
Last: 2025-08-05

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

BROWNE, David Russell→
director · ~75y · appointed 2014-10-20
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Active
BROWNE, June Elaine→
director · ~74y · appointed 2014-10-20
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Active
D'AMBROSIO, David Stephen→
director · ~47y · appointed 2014-10-20
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Active
D'AMBROSIO, Judith Elaine→
director · ~48y · appointed 2014-10-20
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property06/01/2017—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—15/12/2016—
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Recent filings (35 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-06-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-05-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-08-22
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2022-03-10
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2022-03-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-03-23
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2021-03-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-19