NORWOOD HALL HOTEL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC169895 · ltd · incorporated 1996-11-15
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.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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year to Sept 2024
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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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 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
14 officers (3 active, 14 linked, 9 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
19 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
104 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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
80
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-09-272023-09-27
Average employees00

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (42 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-26
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  2. 2024-09-24
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  3. 2023-04-28
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  4. 2022-06-27
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  5. 2021-06-12
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  6. 2020-12-10
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  7. 2020-12-01
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    officers · TM01
  8. 2020-09-16
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  9. 2020-08-26
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    MACDONALD, Ruaridh resigned
    director
  10. 2019-11-21
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  11. 2019-06-11
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  12. 2019-03-12
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    O'CALLAGHAN, Francis resigned
    director
  13. 2019-03-12
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  14. 2019-03-11
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
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  15. 2018-12-13
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  16. 2018-03-07
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  17. 2017-12-06
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
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  18. 2017-03-06
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  19. 2016-01-18
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    COOK, Robert Barclay resigned
    director
  20. 2015-03-27
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    SMITH, Gerard Henry appointed
    director
  21. 2015-03-27
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    COOK, Robert Barclay appointed
    director
  22. 2015-03-27
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    MACDONALD, Ruaridh appointed
    director
  23. 2013-08-30
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    FRANSSEN, Ivan Mark resigned
    director
  24. 2010-01-20
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    TILLEY, Irene Margaret resigned
    secretary
  25. 2010-01-20
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    FRANSSEN, Ivan Mark appointed
    director
  26. 2009-03-07
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    GILLIES, Iain appointed
    secretary
  27. 2009-03-07
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    GILLIES, Iain appointed
    director
  28. 2009-03-07
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    TILLEY, Irene Margaret resigned
    director
  29. 2006-12-07
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    TILLEY, Irene Margaret appointed
    secretary
  30. 2006-12-06
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    LC SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  31. 2006-04-03
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    LC SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  32. 2006-04-03
    ➖
    LEDINGHAM CHALMERS resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  33. 2003-04-14
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    TILLEY, Irene Margaret appointed
    director
  34. 2003-03-20
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    DALLAS, Marshall Cameron resigned
    director
  35. 2002-04-30
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    MCILRATH, Martin Alexander resigned
    director
  36. 2002-02-25
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    DALLAS, Marshall Cameron appointed
    director
  37. 1997-02-17
    ➕
    MCILRATH, Martin Alexander appointed
    director
  38. 1997-02-17
    ➕
    O'CALLAGHAN, Francis appointed
    director
  39. 1997-02-17
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    DURANO LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director
  40. 1996-11-15
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    Company incorporated
    As NORWOOD HALL HOTEL LIMITED
  41. 1996-11-15
    ➕
    LEDINGHAM CHALMERS appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  42. 1996-11-15
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    DURANO LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

83/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
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 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Monument Leisure Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Monument Leisure Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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NORWOOD HALL HOTEL LIMITED
This company · SC169895

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Monument Leisure Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1996-11-15
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

Grange Manor Hotel
Grange Manor Hotel Glensburgh
Grangemouth
Stirlingshire
FK3 8XJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-27
Last made up to: 2024-09-27
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-29
Last: 2025-11-15

Officers (3 active · 11 resigned)

GILLIES, Iain→
secretary · appointed 2009-03-07
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Active
GILLIES, Iain→
director · ~64y · appointed 2009-03-07
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Active
SMITH, Gerard Henry→
director · ~76y · appointed 2015-03-27
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Active
TILLEY, Irene Margaret→
secretary · appointed 2006-12-07 · resigned 2010-01-20
Resigned
LC SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2006-04-03 · resigned 2006-12-06
Resigned
LEDINGHAM CHALMERS→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1996-11-15 · resigned 2006-04-03
Resigned
COOK, Robert Barclay→
director · ~60y · appointed 2015-03-27 · resigned 2016-01-18
Resigned
DALLAS, Marshall Cameron→
director · ~61y · appointed 2002-02-25 · resigned 2003-03-20
Resigned
FRANSSEN, Ivan Mark→
director · ~61y · appointed 2010-01-20 · resigned 2013-08-30
Resigned
MACDONALD, Ruaridh→
director · ~51y · appointed 2015-03-27 · resigned 2020-08-26
Resigned
MCILRATH, Martin Alexander→
director · ~69y · appointed 1997-02-17 · resigned 2002-04-30
Resigned
O'CALLAGHAN, Francis→
director · ~87y · appointed 1997-02-17 · resigned 2019-03-12
Resigned
TILLEY, Irene Margaret→
director · ~70y · appointed 2003-04-14 · resigned 2009-03-07
Resigned
DURANO LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 1996-11-15 · resigned 1997-02-17
Resigned

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Recent filings (104 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-09-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2020-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-01
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-12-01
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2020-09-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-25