HORTONS' ESTATE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-28 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-28.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£201M
+5% vs 2024
Employees
31
+6.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£20M
+14.4% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £17,279,000 | £16,548,000 | |
| Operating profit | £19,122,000 | £19,052,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £17,519,000 | £20,036,000 | |
| Net profit | £13,638,000 | £15,065,000 | |
| Cash | £2,143,000 | £1,537,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £273,464,000 | £275,212,000 | |
| Net assets | £191,808,000 | £201,460,000 | |
| Equity | £191,808,000 | £201,460,000 | |
| Average employees | 29 | 31 | |
| Wages | £2,153,000 | £2,681,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 110.7% | 115.1% | |
| Net margin | 78.9% | 91.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.0% | 6.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.99x | 1.98x | |
| Interest cover | 3.02x | 3.42x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“They are satisfied that the Group has adequate resources to continue to be operational as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing the financial statements and therefore have adopted the going concern basis in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- HORTONS' ESTATE LIMITED · parent
- Hortellux Limited 100%
- Cornex Limited 100%
- Hortons' Estate Developments Limited 100%
- Hortons' Estate (Grand Hotel) Limited 100%
- Kings Court Kettering Management Company Limited 100%
- Lieuin Limited 75%
- New Street LLP 50%
- Nuthall Nottingham LLP 50%
- Steindale Properties Limited 50%
Significant events
- “On 29 September 2025, the Bulk Purchase Annuity Agreement was converted from a buy-in contract to a buy-out.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FREEMAN, David Allan | Secretary | 2019-04-01 | — | — |
| BENSON, Stephen Robin Clayton | Director | 2019-01-02 | Jul 1966 | British |
| FREEMAN, David Allan, Dr | Director | 2017-09-28 | Aug 1977 | British |
| GLOVER, Joseph Sebastian Horton | Director | 2024-04-01 | Oct 1990 | British |
| GULLIFORD, Simon James | Director | 2015-05-01 | Jun 1958 | British |
| HORTON, Peter Michael | Director | 2001-10-01 | Sep 1969 | British |
| LEE, Peter John Gorringe | Director | 2015-03-31 | May 1965 | British |
| WYSE, Sarah | Director | 2023-04-01 | Feb 1967 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLYTH, Robert Edward | Secretary | 1999-12-01 | 2000-01-27 |
| BLYTH, Robert Edward | Secretary | 1999-12-01 | 2000-05-01 |
| GREEN, Antony Charles | Secretary | 2000-05-02 | 2019-03-31 |
| ROWLATT, Rafe Napier | Secretary | — | 1999-11-30 |
| BLYTH, Robert Edward | Director | — | 2009-01-31 |
| CAMBRAY, Richard Ian | Director | 2008-05-01 | 2009-05-18 |
| GREAVES, Ian Geoffrey | Director | 2019-01-01 | 2024-05-31 |
| GREEN, Antony Charles | Director | 2000-05-02 | 2019-03-31 |
| HORTON, Graham Butler | Director | — | 2006-03-31 |
| HORTON, Henry Edward Tombs | Director | 2008-05-01 | 2024-08-01 |
| HORTON, Michael Tombs | Director | — | 2008-03-31 |
| HORTON, Michael Scofield | Director | — | 2002-01-14 |
| HORTON, Richard Tombs | Director | — | 2000-07-15 |
| KIRBY, Richard Charles | Director | 1996-10-01 | 2015-03-31 |
| NORGROVE, Richard Jackson Corban | Director | 2009-02-01 | 2021-05-25 |
| ROWLATT, Rafe Napier | Director | — | 1999-11-30 |
| SAMUDA, Richard Markham | Director | 2004-10-01 | 2015-04-30 |
| TAYLOR, Peter Duncan | Director | — | 2004-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 242 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-02-06 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-02-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-24 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-12-24 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-12-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-12-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-04-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-02-06 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-02-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-12-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-08-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-12-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-09-30 vs 2024-09-30
-
Turnover
-4.2%
£17,279,000 £16,548,000
-
Cash
-28.3%
£2,143,000 £1,537,000
-
Net assets
+5%
£191,808,000 £201,460,000
-
Employees
+6.9%
29 31
-
Operating profit
-0.4%
£19,122,000 £19,052,000
-
Profit before tax
+14.4%
£17,519,000 £20,036,000
-
Wages
+24.5%
£2,153,000 £2,681,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers