CRANFORD COTTAGES LIMITED
Company number 02133051 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Cranford Cottages Limited operates as a small, long-established holiday let business that is in a persistently insolvent financial position, with negative shareholders' funds of (£26,499) in FY2025 — deteriorating from a brief positive position in FY2021. The business is entirely dependent on director funding (evidenced by £75,682 in other creditors) to sustain operations, with a current ratio of just 0.08:1 providing no meaningful liquidity buffer. While ongoing capital investment in property improvements demonstrates director commitment, the structural inability to generate positive equity over a sustained period, combined with the forthcoming abolition of the Furnished Holiday Let tax regime and ongoing cost inflation in the sector, raises significant going-concern questions absent a fundamental restructuring of the business model or capital base.
Shareholders' funds
-£26,499
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1987-05-20
- Employees
- 2 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Fiscal House, 367 London Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3HQ
- Postcode
- GU15 3HQ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-10
- Next due by
- 2027-07-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 96090 Other service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 3 resigned
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| CRANFORD INN (HOLIDAY LETS) LIMITED | 2012-01-20 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 484 HIGH STREET, HARTLEY WINTNEY, HAMPSHIRE, RG27 8NS | 1995-10-24 |
| HOLLYBOURN, 1 TARRANT GARDENS, HARTLEY WINTNEY, HANTS.RG27 8NE | 1993-08-10 |
| ACI HOUSE, TORRINGTON PARK, LONDON, N12 9SZ | 1991-07-26 |
Among its peers
Among the oldest 25%
of 1,214 similar companies in GU, trading since 1987
Competitors Guildford
This company ranks 975 among other service activities not elsewhere classified in Guildford.
The class of 1987
43%
of the 385 companies in this sector incorporated in 1987 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.