D.S. WATSON CIVIL ENGINEERING (ANGLIA) LIMITED
Company number 01165002 · Monitor this company
This company is in liquidation.
Executive summary
D.S. Watson Civil Engineering demonstrates contradictory strategic signals: operational improvement in revenue growth, margin expansion, and cash generation alongside a liquidation status and aggressive dividend extraction that exceeds annual profitability. The company's 50-year heritage, debt-free position, and regional civil engineering capabilities represent genuine strategic assets, but these are being realized rather than reinvested—consistent with a solvent wind-down scenario. The critical strategic question is not growth potential but rather whether the liquidation represents permanent dissolution or a restructuring precursor; until clarified, all growth opportunity analysis remains theoretical.
Shareholders' funds
£7,724,369
Balance sheet as at 2024-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1974-03-29
- Employees
- 117 (2024 accounts · was 111 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Unit 13-14 Tilia Court Beccles Business Park, Beccles, Suffolk, United Kingdom, NR34 7BF
- Postcode
- NR34 7BF
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-13
- Next due by
- 2027-07-27
Nature of business (SIC)
- 42990 Construction of other civil engineering projects not elsewhere classified
Officers 5 current · 10 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by DW HOLDINGS (ANGLIA) LTD — since 2019-07-01
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA466303 (Tier 1), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 13-14 TILIA COURT, BECCLES BUSINESS PARK, BECCLES, SUFFOLK, NR34 7BF, ENGLAND | 2017-11-20 |
| 19-21 RAVENSMERE, BECCLES, SUFFOLK, NR34 9DX | 2017-08-31 |
| 13-14 TILIA COURT, WORLINGHAM, BECCLES, NR34 7BF, ENGLAND | 2017-08-31 |
| 486 LONDON ROAD SOUTH, LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK, NR33 0LB | 2015-08-27 |
| SOTTERLEY END FARM, SOTTERLEY, HENSTEAD BECCLES, SUFFOLK, NR34 7NQ | 2008-08-18 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 117 similar companies in NR
The largest employer among its local peers (117 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1974.
Competitors Norwich
This company ranks 1 among construction of other civil engineering projects not elsewhere classified in Norwich.
The class of 1974
54%
of the 5,337 companies incorporated in 1974 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
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