THE HOTEL FOLK LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£4,240,986
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company during the period was the operation of hotels and other leisure activities.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1995-09-04
- Employees
- 368 (2025 accounts · was 370 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Thorpeness Hotel & Golf Club Lakeside Avenue, Thorpeness, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4NH
- Postcode
- IP16 4NH
- Capital
- 2,408,263 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 11 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-04
- Next due by
- 2026-09-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 55100 Hotels and similar accommodation
Officers 7 current · 8 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
-
EXPLOITS LIMITED Dissolved
-
SON AND SUN LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Gender pay gap
3.21%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Contact details
- Website
- thehotelfolk.com
- Phone
- 01728564207
The Hotel Folk is a group of award winning, luxury hotels and businesses located across Suffolk.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| TA HOTEL COLLECTION LIMITED | 2019-02-08 |
| THORPENESS & ALDEBURGH HOTELS LIMITED | 2011-11-11 |
| THORPENESS GOLF CLUB & HOTEL LIMITED | 2002-04-03 |
| BIDEAWHILE 229 LIMITED | 1996-03-06 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| BLYTH HOUSE, RENDHAM ROAD, SAXMUNDHAM, SUFFOLK, IP17 1WA | 2011-06-01 |
| KERR HOUSE, 19-23 FORE STREET, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK IP4 1JW | 2002-03-29 |
| KERR HOUSE, 19-23 FORE STREET, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK IP4 1JW | 2002-03-29 |
| 24 MUSEUM STREET, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK IP1 1HZ | 1996-03-06 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 126 similar companies in IP
The largest employer among its local peers (368 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1995.
No.4 of the largest hotels and similar accommodation companies in Ipswich →
Competitors Ipswich
This company ranks 4 among hotels and similar accommodation in Ipswich.
The class of 1995
45%
of the 34,002 companies incorporated in 1995 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 17 titles
- Freehold
- 14
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2019-10-30
- Price paid, where recorded
- £5,220,000
- Where
- Suffolk (17)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK397916 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2019-10-30 | — |
| SK396846 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2019-09-18 | — |
| SK199776 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2018-04-12 | £3,600,000 |
| SK240701 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2017-04-06 | £600,000 |
| SK368004 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2016-04-15 | £900,000 |
| SK121529 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2014-03-20 | — |
| SK126571 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2012-05-31 | — |
| SK190287 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2011-04-28 | — |
| SK160568 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2008-06-06 | — |
| SK250561 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2006-05-11 | — |
| SK46429 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2005-04-11 | £120,000 |
| SK160569 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2002-09-03 | — |
| SK178496 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2002-09-03 | — |
| SK194766 | Suffolk | Freehold | 1999-07-30 | — |
| SK142341 | Suffolk | Freehold | 1997-04-07 | — |
| SK169542 | Suffolk | Freehold | 1997-04-03 | — |
| SK42943 | Suffolk | Freehold | 1996-06-19 | — |
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