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Registration number: 05224675

Houghton Construction (Alcester) Ltd
Unaudited Filleted Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

Houghton Construction (Alcester) Ltd

Contents

Balance Sheet | 1
Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements | 2 to 7

Houghton Construction (Alcester) Ltd

(Registration number: 05224675)
Balance Sheet as at 31 October 2025

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Fixed assets |  |  |
Tangible assets | 5 | 97,328 | 263,967
Current assets |  |  |
Debtors | 6 | 28,636 | 6,834
Cash at bank and in hand |  | 76,806 | 135
|  | 105,442 | 6,969
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 7 | (65,836) | (121,450)
Net current assets/(liabilities) |  | 39,606 | (114,481)
Total assets less current liabilities |  | 136,934 | 149,486
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year | 7 | (15,462) | (144,918)
Net assets |  | 121,472 | 4,568
Capital and reserves |  |  |
Called up share capital | 10 | 100 | 100
Retained earnings |  | 121,372 | 4,468
Shareholders' funds |  | 121,472 | 4,568

For the financial year ending 31 October 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors' responsibilities:

• | The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476; and
• | The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. As permitted by section 444 (5A) of the Companies Act 2006, the directors have not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the Board on 16 March 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

......................................... S J Houghton Company secretary and director

Houghton Construction (Alcester) Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

1 | General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
111-113 High Street
Evesham
Worcestershire
WR11 4XP
England

The principal place of business is:
3 Priors Green
Broadway
Worcestershire
WR12 7DZ
United Kingdom

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the Board on 16 March 2026.

2 | Accounting policies

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A smaller entities - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006 (as applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime).

Basis of preparation

These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except that as disclosed in the accounting policies certain items are shown at fair value.

Revenue recognition

Turnover comprises the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for general building and development works in the ordinary course of the company’s activities. Turnover is shown net of value added tax, returns, rebates and discounts.
The company recognises revenue when:
The amount of revenue can be reliably measured;
it is probable that future economic benefits will flow to the entity;
and specific criteria have been met for each of the company's activities.

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current tax. Tax is recognised in profit or loss, except that a change attributable to an item of income or expense recognised as other comprehensive income is also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

Houghton Construction (Alcester) Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the balance sheet at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.
The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class | Depreciation method and rate
Land | Nil
Buildings | 2% straight line
Plant and machinery | 15% straight line
Motor vehicles | 25% reducing balance

Goodwill

Goodwill arising on the acquisition of an entity represents the excess of the cost of acquisition over the company’s interest in the net fair value of the identifiable assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities of the entity recognised at the date of acquisition. Goodwill is initially recognised as an asset at cost and is subsequently measured at cost less accumulated amortisation and accumulated impairment losses. Goodwill is held in the currency of the acquired entity and revalued to the closing rate at each reporting period date. Goodwill is amortised over its useful life, which shall not exceed ten years if a reliable estimate of the useful life cannot be made.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

Trade debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for merchandise sold or services performed in the ordinary course of business.
Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. A provision for the impairment of trade debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.

Houghton Construction (Alcester) Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable are classified as current liabilities if the company does not have an unconditional right, at the end of the reporting period, to defer settlement of the creditor for at least twelve months after the reporting date. If there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, they are presented as non-current liabilities.
Trade creditors are recognised initially at the transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Borrowings

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the profit and loss account over the period of the relevant borrowing.
Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.
Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the company has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.

Leases

Leases in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lessor are classified as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.

Share capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Equity instruments are measured at the fair value of the cash or other resources received or receivable, net of the direct costs of issuing the equity instruments. If payment is deferred and the time value of money is material, the initial measurement is on a present value basis.

Dividends

Dividend distribution to the company’s shareholders is recognised as a liability in the financial statements in the reporting period in which the dividends are declared.

Defined contribution pension obligation

A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the company has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.
Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as employee benefit expense when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

3 | Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, was 4 (2024 - 4).

Houghton Construction (Alcester) Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

4 | Intangible assets

| Goodwill £ | Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 November 2024 | 30,000 | 30,000
At 31 October 2025 | 30,000 | 30,000
Amortisation
At 1 November 2024 | 30,000 | 30,000
At 31 October 2025 | 30,000 | 30,000
Carrying amount
At 31 October 2025 | - | -

5 | Tangible assets

| Freehold land and buildings £ | Plant and machinery £ | Motor vehicles £ | Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 November 2024 | 277,555 | 116,263 | 34,899 | 428,717
Additions | - | 18,445 | 39,529 | 57,974
Disposals | (226,556) | (4,000) | (17,230) | (247,786)
At 31 October 2025 | 50,999 | 130,708 | 57,198 | 238,905
Depreciation
At 1 November 2024 | 28,180 | 108,319 | 28,250 | 164,749
Charge for the year | - | 5,956 | 8,632 | 14,588
Eliminated on disposal | (28,180) | (4,000) | (5,580) | (37,760)
At 31 October 2025 | - | 110,275 | 31,302 | 141,577
Carrying amount
At 31 October 2025 | 50,999 | 20,433 | 25,896 | 97,328
At 31 October 2024 | 249,375 | 7,943 | 6,649 | 263,967

6 | Debtors

Current | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Trade debtors | 3,203 | 6,834
Other debtors | 25,433 | -
| 28,636 | 6,834

Houghton Construction (Alcester) Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

7 | Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due within one year |  |  |
Loans and borrowings | 9 | 4,217 | 18,593
Trade creditors |  | 4,610 | 17,839
Taxation and social security |  | 44,872 | 19,089
Accruals and deferred income |  | 3,798 | 7,131
Other creditors |  | 8,339 | 58,798
|  | 65,836 | 121,450

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due after one year |  |  |
Loans and borrowings | 9 | 15,462 | 144,918

8 | Related party transactions

Transactions with directors

2025 | At 1 November 2024 £ | Advances to director £ | At 31 October 2025 £
S J Houghton
Loan with interest charged at ruling HMRC rate | - | 12,717 | 12,717
Mrs C Houghton
Loan with interest charged at ruling HMRC rate | - | 12,716 | 12,716

2024 | At 1 November 2023 £ | Advances to director £ | Repayments by director £ | At 31 October 2024 £
S J Houghton
Loan with interest charged at ruling HMRC rate | 1,189 | 31,794 | (32,983) | -
Mrs C Houghton
Loan with interest charged at ruling HMRC rate | 1,188 | 31,795 | (32,983) | -

Houghton Construction (Alcester) Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

9 | Loans and borrowings

Non-current loans and borrowings

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Bank borrowings | 15,462 | 144,918

Current loans and borrowings

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Bank borrowings | 4,217 | 9,808
Bank overdrafts | - | 8,785
| 4,217 | 18,593

10 | Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

| 2025 | 2024
| No. | £ | No. | £
Ordinary shares of £1 each | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100