SEAFORTH HOUSE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC140707 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1992-10-13

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

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled

Sector: Human health & social work

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

11 officers (7 active, 11 linked, 10 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

91 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	37	3400

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

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2 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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand

2026-01-16
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officers · AP01
2025-12-23
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accounts · AA
2025-09-18
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MACLEAN, Fiona appointed
director
2024-12-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-01
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gazette · DISS40
2022-03-31
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officers · TM01
2022-03-29
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gazette · GAZ1
2021-12-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-01-27
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DAVISON, Margaret resigned
director
2019-11-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-01-10
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2019-01-09
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2018-12-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2017-09-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2011-08-28
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DAVISON, James Geoffrey appointed
director
2011-08-28
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DAVISON, Robert Charles Richard appointed
director
2004-02-13
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MORTON, Alexander Maclaren resigned
director
2003-07-01
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GOODFELLOW, Janette appointed
director
2002-01-21
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HAMILTON MEIKLE, Patricia Mary resigned
director
1999-07-01
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DAVISON, Barbara Susan appointed
director
1999-06-30
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MACKINNON, Catherine Calder, Dr resigned
director
1995-03-27
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MACKINNON, Catherine Calder, Dr appointed
director
1995-03-17
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HAMILTON MEIKLE, Patricia Mary appointed
director
1995-03-17
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MORTON, Alexander Maclaren appointed
director
1992-10-13
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Company incorporated
As SEAFORTH HOUSE LIMITED
1992-10-13
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DAVISON, Clifford appointed
secretary
1992-10-13
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DAVISON, Clifford appointed
director
1992-10-13
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DAVISON, Margaret 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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1992-10-13

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC87300 — Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled

Registered office

Fairburn House

Urray

Muir Of Ord

Ross-Shire

IV6 7UT

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-22

Last: 2026-01-08