{"name":"G.W.RUDD LIMITED","company_number":"00096813","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1908-02-12","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Rudland House, Railway Street, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, DL14 7LR","postcode":"DL14 7LR","sic_codes":[{"code":68209,"description":"Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"31 March","last_made_up_to":"2026-03-31","next_due":"2027-12-31"},"employees":{"count":3,"accounts_date":"2026-03-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2026-03-31","net_assets":471133,"cash":1038,"average_employees":3},{"financial_date":"2025-03-31","net_assets":464062,"cash":2798,"average_employees":3},{"financial_date":"2024-03-31","net_assets":485562,"cash":7217,"average_employees":4},{"financial_date":"2023-03-31","net_assets":511012,"cash":8175},{"financial_date":"2022-03-31","net_assets":389790,"cash":5827}],"officers":{"current":5,"resigned":3,"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":3,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"G.W. Rudd Limited is a century-old, family-controlled Bishop Auckland property vehicle with a fundamentally sound but strategically dormant balance sheet: £464k of net assets, 90% equity-funded, zero bank debt, and 95% of assets in a single, locally concentrated property portfolio. Its competitive strength is cost discipline and an unencumbered asset base with roughly £245k–£295k of unused debt capacity; its binding constraints are acute liquidity tightness, a valuation cushion over half of net worth that is now more than two years stale, and a fragmented ownership register that slows decisive action. The value-creating path is narrow but clear — refresh the valuation, quantify the EPC liability, and put three scenarios (hold, lever-and-acquire, orderly disposal) to shareholders, because the status quo is quietly eroding equity at a rate the current operating model cannot reverse.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/gwrudd","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/gwrudd/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/gwrudd/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00096813","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/gwrudd/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/gwrudd/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/gwrudd/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/gwrudd/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/gwrudd"}