CHAUCER LAND LIMITED
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Executive summary
Chaucer Land Limited is a micro-scale land trader operating in the North Yorkshire property market, functioning as a subsidiary within a small group structure controlled by Andrew Beckingham. The company's 2024 accounts reveal a concerning deterioration in its balance sheet position, with net assets declining by 76.8% to just £4,115, whilst liabilities more than doubled due to a new corporation tax charge and increased creditor balances — likely reflecting a taxable event followed by dividend extraction by its parent. With virtually all assets concentrated in a single land holding and minimal equity buffer, the business remains entirely dependent on successfully disposing of its stock in a challenging higher-rate environment that has suppressed land market activity across the UK.
Shareholders' funds
-£4,194
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
Purchase and sale of land
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2009-04-21
- Employees
- 1 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- 12 Station Parade, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, HG1 1UE
- Postcode
- HG1 1UE
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-02-04
- Next due by
- 2027-02-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 68100 Buying and selling of own real estate
Officers 1 current · 1 resigned
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| CHAUCER HOUSE 4-6 UPPER MARLBOROUGH ROAD, ST ALBANS, HERTS, AL1 3UR | 2015-08-25 |
| TORRINGTON HOUSE 47 HOLYWELL HILL, ST ALBANS, HERTS, AL1 1HD | 2009-11-20 |
Among its peers
Among the oldest 25%
of 416 similar companies in HG, trading since 2009
Competitors Harrogate
This company ranks 268 among buying and selling of own real estate in Harrogate.
The class of 2009
48%
of the 1,918 companies in this sector incorporated in 2009 are still active today; 49% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 49 titles
- Freehold
- 49
- Most recent registration
- 2010-01-28
- Price paid, where recorded
- £325,000
- Where
- Hertfordshire (8), Surrey (7), Buckinghamshire (6)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY146803 | Surrey | Freehold | 2010-01-28 | — |
| SY657175 | Surrey | Freehold | 2010-01-28 | — |
| AGL127575 | Greater London | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| BD232169 | Central Bedfordshire | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| BK289975 | Wokingham | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| BK292113 | Windsor And Maidenhead | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| BM214762 | Buckinghamshire | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| BM262672 | Buckinghamshire | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| BM278604 | Buckinghamshire | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| BM284234 | Buckinghamshire | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| BM292510 | Buckinghamshire | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| BM296515 | Buckinghamshire | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| CB248784 | Cambridgeshire | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| CH528845 | Cheshire East | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| CU205066 | Cumberland | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| DY64661 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| ESX258470 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| ESX258681 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| ESX91065 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
| EX620846 | Essex | Freehold | 2009-06-22 | — |
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