RICHMOND HOUSE HOTEL LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive
SC577556 · ltd · incorporated 2017-09-29
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.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 8.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

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Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation
Sector: Accommodation & food service
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 56302Public houses and bars
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 8.6y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 8.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · 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, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
22 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees1100

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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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-31
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  2. 2024-07-29
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  3. 2023-07-25
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  4. 2022-07-29
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-07-27
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  6. 2021-05-25
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2021-05-25
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  8. 2020-12-03
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  9. 2019-06-28
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-12-06
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    mortgage · MR01
  11. 2018-11-28
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  12. 2018-10-03
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    accounts · AA01
  13. 2018-03-07
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    mortgage · MR01
  14. 2018-03-06
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  15. 2017-10-27
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    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2017-10-24
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2017-09-29
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    Company incorporated
    As RICHMOND HOUSE HOTEL LIMITED
  18. 2017-09-29
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    CLARK, Iride appointed
    director
  19. 2017-09-29
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    LIVINGSTONE, Marion appointed
    director
  20. 2017-09-29
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    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

78/100
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 74 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 9 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Marion Livingstone
Individual · British · DOB 11/1952 · age 74
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting29/09/2017
Mrs Iride Clark
Individual · Lithuanian · DOB 11/1976 · age 50
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting29/09/2017

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
Incorporated2017-09-29
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

19 Culduthel Road
Inverness
IV2 4AA
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-12
Last: 2025-09-28

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

CLARK, Iride→
director · ~50y · appointed 2017-09-29
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Active
LIVINGSTONE, Marion→
director · ~74y · appointed 2017-09-29
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property28/11/2018—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property06/03/2018—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—24/10/2017—
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Recent filings (22 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-29
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accounts · AA
2025-07-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-29
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-05-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-05-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-30