LONGCLIFFE QUARRIES LIMITED
Company number 00273400 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Longcliffe Quarries Limited merits credit approval based on its established 90-year trading history, strong profitability growth (PBT up 39% to £6.6M), and substantial asset base of £45M+ providing good tangible security. The company demonstrates sound financial stewardship under family ownership with conservative gearing, renewed banking facilities, and improving operational efficiency. Key monitoring areas are energy cost exposure, variable rate borrowing sensitivity, and ensuring dividend extraction by the parent company does not weaken the subsidiary's balance sheet.
Shareholders' funds
£11,531,144
Balance sheet as at 2020-03-31
What it does
Quarrying of ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate. Cutting, shaping and finishing of stone
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1933-02-25
- Employees
- 198 (2026 accounts · was 187 in 2025)
- Registered office
- Longcliffe Quarries Ltd Head Office Longcliffe, Brassington, Matlock, Derbyshire, England, DE4 4HN
- Postcode
- DE4 4HN
- Capital
- 145,474 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 10 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-06
- Next due by
- 2026-09-20
Nature of business (SIC)
- 8110 Quarrying of ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate
- 23700 Cutting, shaping and finishing of stone
Officers 10 current · 15 resigned
Group structure 8 subsidiaries
Controlled by LONGCLIFFE GROUP LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
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VITAL EARTH GROUP LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Political donations 15
£112,450 in registered political donations since 2005.
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Conservative and Unionist Party
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Conservative and Unionist Party
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Conservative and Unionist Party
Showing the 3 most recent of 15.
Source: the Electoral Commission's register of donations — this company's full record, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contact details
- Website
- longcliffe.co.uk
- Phone
- 01629540284
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| LONGCLIFFE, BRASSINGTON, MATLOCK, DERBYSHIRE, DE4 4BZ | 2017-05-18 |
| ERNST & YOUNG, ONE COLMORE ROW, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS B3 2DB | 1998-04-09 |
| ERNST & YOUNG, ONE COLMORE ROW, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS B3 2DB | 1998-04-09 |
| WINDSOR HOUSE, 3 TEMPLE ROW, BIRMINGHAM, B2 5JX | 1996-03-07 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 13 similar companies in DE
The largest employer among its local peers (198 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1933.
Competitors Derby
This company ranks 2 among quarrying of ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate in Derby.
Property in England & Wales 62 titles
- Freehold
- 61
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2025-10-09
- Price paid, where recorded
- £4,002,072
- Where
- Derbyshire (61), Leicestershire (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DY260415 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2025-10-09 | — |
| DY278226 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2025-07-14 | — |
| DY278227 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2025-07-14 | — |
| DY286604 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2025-07-14 | — |
| DY249746 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2025-04-04 | — |
| DY585178 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2024-10-25 | — |
| DY582070 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2024-06-07 | — |
| DY579794 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2024-02-28 | — |
| DY579326 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2024-02-06 | — |
| DY557451 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2024-01-05 | — |
| DY572047 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2023-04-19 | — |
| DY385644 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2023-04-06 | £525,000 |
| DY469042 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2023-03-23 | — |
| DY564138 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2022-06-16 | — |
| DY1288 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2022-01-20 | — |
| DY495794 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2022-01-20 | — |
| DY555185 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2021-07-27 | — |
| DY550934 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2021-03-03 | £5,000 |
| DY537994 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2019-09-20 | — |
| DY206521 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2019-04-09 | £360,000 |
Showing 20 of 62.
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