{"name":"F. PETER ROBINSON LIMITED","company_number":"00587315","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1957-07-16","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Northumberland Street, Darlington, DL3 7HJ","postcode":"DL3 7HJ","sic_codes":[{"code":46180,"description":"Agents specialized in the sale of other particular products"},{"code":46190,"description":"Agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods"},{"code":68209,"description":"Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[{"name":"FRED.W.ROBINSON & SONS LIMITED","changed_on":"1991-07-01"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"31 May","last_made_up_to":"2026-05-31","next_due":"2028-02-29"},"employees":{"count":8,"accounts_date":"2026-05-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2026-05-31","net_assets":2704870,"cash":134847,"average_employees":8},{"financial_date":"2025-05-31","net_assets":2649218,"cash":140757,"average_employees":7},{"financial_date":"2024-05-31","net_assets":2606413,"cash":131775,"average_employees":7},{"financial_date":"2023-05-31","net_assets":2584285,"cash":178913},{"financial_date":"2022-05-31","net_assets":2524067,"cash":257550}],"officers":{"current":3,"resigned":7,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":26,"outstanding":12},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"F. Peter Robinson Limited is a long-running (founded 1957) family-owned regional auctioneer and property investment business based in Darlington, operating firmly within the Small Companies regime with 7 staff and £2.65M in net assets. Its financial trajectory over the past decade reveals a deliberate deleveraging strategy, with total liabilities cut by 74% since 2016 alongside a corresponding fall in total assets, while investment property (£3.55M) anchors the balance sheet. Despite sector-wide pressures on traditional regional auctioneers from online disruption and margin compression, the firm maintains a stable niche position through diversified income (auction commissions, agency, rental, management fees), multi-generational family stewardship, and reduced gearing — making it a resilient but geographically constrained sub-scale operator.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/f-peter-robinson","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/f-peter-robinson/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/f-peter-robinson/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00587315","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/f-peter-robinson/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/f-peter-robinson/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/f-peter-robinson/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/f-peter-robinson/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/f-peter-robinson"}