WILLIAM COOK STANHOPE LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£3,742,468
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-28
What it does
The principal activity of the Company in the period under review was the design, manufacture and supply of steel products and complex engineered assemblies in high strength steels, other metals and polymers.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1940-02-29
- Employees
- 127 (2025 accounts · was 126 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Bondisle Way, Stanhope, Bishop Auckland, England, DL13 2YR
- Postcode
- DL13 2YR
- Capital
- 461,308 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-28
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-25
- Next due by
- 2026-12-09
Nature of business (SIC)
- 24520 Casting of steel
Officers 2 current · 30 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by WILLIAM COOK HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ASTRUM (UK) LIMITED | 2011-11-08 |
| WILLIAM COOK DEFENCE LIMITED | 2007-01-12 |
| WILLIAM COOK BLAIR LIMITED | 2003-02-21 |
| WILLIAM COOK GEORGE BLAIR LIMITED | 2002-02-18 |
| WILLIAM COOK BLAIR LIMITED | 1996-01-19 |
| GEORGE BLAIR LIMITED | 1996-01-03 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| BOND ISLE WAY, STANHOPE, BISHOP AUCKLAND, COUNTY DURHAM, DL13 2YR | 2011-11-02 |
| PARKWAY AVENUE, SHEFFIELD, S9 4UL | 2007-01-11 |
| ARMOND CARR WORKS, TOW LAW, COUNTY DURHAM, DL13 4HH | 1994-04-29 |
| POTTERY LANE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 3RB | 1990-10-11 |
| NEWCASTLE ALLOY STEELWORKS,, FORTH,, NEWCASTLE-U-TYNE 1 | 1989-01-13 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 9 similar companies in DL — measured against the wider sector
The largest employer among its local peers (127 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1940.
Property in England & Wales 4 titles
- Freehold
- 4
- Most recent registration
- 2026-03-19
- Where
- County Durham (4)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DU149159 | County Durham | Freehold | 2026-03-19 | — |
| DU178165 | County Durham | Freehold | 2026-03-19 | — |
| DU292602 | County Durham | Freehold | 2026-03-19 | — |
| DU160990 | County Durham | Freehold | 1990-07-06 | — |
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