CALEDONIAN HOTEL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC518578 · ltd · incorporated 2015-10-23

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 10.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Oct 2024

Net worth

£-31.8k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation

Sector: Accommodation & food service

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 10.2y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 10.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

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

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

28 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £31,847

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

-£32k

↑ 45% YoY

Current Assets

£19k

↑ 93% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-10-31	2023-10-31
Total assets	£-21.3k	£-37.5k
Current assets	£19.0k	£9.8k
Debtors	£11.0k	£1.8k
Net assets	£-31.8k	£-58.1k

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.

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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 (20 events)Click to expand

2025-10-27
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-04
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gazette · DISS40
2019-11-09
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dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
2019-10-01
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gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2019-02-16
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gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2019-02-09
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dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
2019-01-08
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gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2018-07-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-07-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2016-02-09
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2015-10-23
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Company incorporated
As CALEDONIAN HOTEL LIMITED
2015-10-23
➕
BAINBRIDGE, Wendy Jane appointed
director
2015-10-23
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HARPER, Bruce appointed
director

Owner dependency

71/100

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.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.
+No director turnover: Company is 11 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

51/100

Moderate signal

Some succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
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 Bruce Harper Individual · British · DOB 09/1966 · age 60	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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2015-10-23

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

105 Edinburgh Road

Dumfries

DG1 1JX

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-07-31

Last made up to: 2024-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-05

Last: 2025-10-22

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

BAINBRIDGE, Wendy Jane→

director · ~59y · appointed 2015-10-23

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Active

HARPER, Bruce→

director · ~60y · appointed 2015-10-23

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	A registered charge	—	09/02/2016	—

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Recent filings (28 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-10-27

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2025-10-27