11 CROMWELL ROAD (HOVE) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
09084040 · ltd · incorporated 2014-06-12
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
£8.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Residents property management
Sector: Activities of households
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -38% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
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
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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £8,235
Net assets shrinking
Down £4,498 YoY
Cash YoY
-38%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£7k
↓ 38% YoY
Net Worth
£8k
↓ 35% YoY
Current Assets
£9k
↓ 34% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£3k£5k£8k£11k£13kJun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Total assets£8.2k£12.7k
Current assets£8.7k£13.2k
Cash£7.2k£11.7k
Debtors£1.4k£1.4k
Net assets£8.2k£12.7k

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-16
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    CLOHERTY, Coleen Mark resigned
    secretary
  3. 2025-01-16
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    CLOHERTY, Coleen Mark resigned
    director
  4. 2025-01-16
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  5. 2025-01-16
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  6. 2024-08-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-07-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-07-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-07-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-09-11
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2020-08-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-08-03
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    ELLIS, Gary Leigh resigned
    director
  13. 2019-07-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-08-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-03-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-10-26
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  17. 2017-04-19
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    RANCE, Steve Gregory resigned
    director
  18. 2017-04-19
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  19. 2016-08-09
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    accounts · AA
  20. 2016-07-06
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    annual-return · AR01
  21. 2014-06-12
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    Company incorporated
    As 11 CROMWELL ROAD (HOVE) LIMITED
  22. 2014-06-12
    ➕
    POOLE, Kevin Thomas appointed
    director
  23. 2014-06-12
    ➕
    ROOK, Benjamin David appointed
    director
  24. 2014-06-12
    ➕
    CLOHERTY, Coleen Mark appointed
    secretary
  25. 2014-06-12
    ➕
    CLOHERTY, Coleen Mark appointed
    director
  26. 2014-06-12
    ➕
    ELLIS, Gary Leigh appointed
    director
  27. 2014-06-12
    ➕
    RANCE, Steve Gregory appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
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 69 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

61/100
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.
  • 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
Incorporated2014-06-12
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC98000 — Residents property management

Registered office

Cornelius House
178-180 Church Road
Hove
East Sussex
BN3 2DJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-26
Last: 2025-06-12

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

POOLE, Kevin Thomas→
director · ~69y · appointed 2014-06-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ROOK, Benjamin David→
director · ~52y · appointed 2014-06-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CLOHERTY, Coleen Mark→
secretary · appointed 2014-06-12 · resigned 2025-01-16
Resigned
CLOHERTY, Coleen Mark→
director · ~49y · appointed 2014-06-12 · resigned 2025-01-16
Resigned
ELLIS, Gary Leigh→
director · ~75y · appointed 2014-06-12 · resigned 2020-08-03
Resigned
RANCE, Steve Gregory→
director · ~63y · appointed 2014-06-12 · resigned 2017-04-19
Resigned

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Recent filings (35 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-12
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-01-16
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-01-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-14
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-09-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-08-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-22