THE CLASSIC DECORATING COMPANY LIMITED
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Executive summary
The Classic Decorating Company is an asset-rich, owner-operated painting and decorating business with a 25-year track record and a remarkably strong balance sheet (£480k net assets, 4:1 current ratio) that positions it well for strategic expansion. However, its zero-employee model, key-person dependency, and declining fixed asset base suggest the company is currently in a value-preservation rather than value-creation phase—leaving significant growth potential untapped in its affluent Home Counties market.
Shareholders' funds
£140,414
Balance sheet as at 2016-10-31
What it does
Painting and Decorating Contractors
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-08-24
- Employees
- 0 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- 2 The Stables Hastoe Hill, Hastoe, Tring, England, HP23 6LR
- Postcode
- HP23 6LR
- Capital
- 2 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-24
- Next due by
- 2027-09-07
Nature of business (SIC)
- 43341 Painting
Officers 1 current · 3 resigned
Contact details
Previous registered addresses 7
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| PO BOX 1103 PO BOX 1103, THE OLD RECTORY, AYLESBURY, BUCKS, HP22 9QP, ENGLAND | 2020-01-24 |
| THE OLD RECTORY AYLESBURY ROAD, CUDDINGTON, AYLESBURY, HP18 0BG, ENGLAND | 2017-09-15 |
| TRINITY HOUSE 5(B) BROWNSWOOD ROAD, BEACONSFIELD, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, HP9 2NU | 2017-08-25 |
| REDLANDS, 3 SANDELSWOOD END, BEACONSFIELD, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, HP9 2NW | 2010-09-01 |
| TRINITY HOUSE 5(B) BROWNSWOOD ROAD, BEACONSFIELD, BUCKS, HP9 2NU | 2010-09-01 |
| TUDOR COTTAGE, 29 HIGH STREET, LONG CRENDON, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HP18 9AL | 2003-12-09 |
| OAKLEY HOUSE, MILL STREET, AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HP20 1BN | 1999-09-15 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 99 similar companies in HP
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1999.
Competitors High Wycombe
This company ranks 9 among painting in High Wycombe.
The class of 1999
43%
of the 64,736 companies incorporated in 1999 are still active today; 55% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
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