Company registration number 06520183 (England and Wales)
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
PAGES FOR FILING WITH REGISTRAR
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Balance sheet
1
Statement of changes in equity
2
Notes to the financial statements
3 - 9
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT
31 MARCH 2026
31 March 2026
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2026
2025
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets
5
375,547
419,043
Tangible assets
6
103,661
97,553
479,208
516,596
Current assets
Debtors
7
1,302,237
1,247,533
Cash at bank and in hand
1,988,439
2,262,276
3,290,676
3,509,809
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
8
(1,212,897)
(1,356,936)
Net current assets
2,077,779
2,152,873
Total assets less current liabilities
2,556,987
2,669,469
Provisions for liabilities
(100,155)
(62,853)
Net assets
2,456,832
2,606,616
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
180
180
Capital redemption reserve
20
20
Other reserves
19,250
Profit and loss reserves
2,456,632
2,587,166
Total equity
2,456,832
2,606,616
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The directors of the company have elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 29 October 2026 and are signed on its behalf by:
M Gibberd
A C Hill
Director
Director
Company registration number 06520183 (England and Wales)
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
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Share capital
Capital redemption reserve
Share option reserve
Profit and loss reserves
Total
Notes
£
£
£
£
£
Balance at 1 April 2024
180
20
8,250
2,217,241
2,225,691
Year ended 31 March 2025:
Profit and total comprehensive income for the year
-
-
-
919,925
919,925
Dividends
-
-
-
(550,000)
(550,000)
Share-based payments
-
-
11,000
11,000
Balance at 31 March 2025
180
20
19,250
2,587,166
2,606,616
Year ended 31 March 2026:
Profit and total comprehensive income for the year
-
-
-
419,466
419,466
Dividends
-
-
-
(550,000)
(550,000)
Share-based payments
-
-
(19,250)
(19,250)
Balance at 31 March 2026
180
20
2,456,632
2,456,832
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
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1
Accounting policies
Company information
The Modern House Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is St Alphege Hall, King's Bench Street, London, SE1 0QX.
1.1
Accounting convention
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The disclosure requirements of section 1A of FRS 102 have been applied other than where additional disclosure is required to show a true and fair view.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
1.2
Going concern
Atruet the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
1.3
Turnover
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes. Revenue is recognised on exchange of contracts.
1.4
Intangible fixed assets other than goodwill
Expenditure on development activities is capitalised if the product or process is technically and commercially feasible, the company intends to and has the technical ability and sufficient resources to complete development, future economic benefits are probable and if the company can measure reliably the expenditure attributable to the intangible asset during its development. Development activities involve a new website development for an improved overall user experience. The expenditure capitalised includes the cost of materials, direct labour and an appropriate proportion of overheads.
Website 20%
1.5
Tangible fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.
Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:
Plant and equipment
25% straight line
The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is credited or charged to profit or loss.
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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1.6
Impairment of fixed assets
At each reporting period end date, the company reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible and intangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss (if any). Where it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of an individual asset, the company estimates the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs.
1.7
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks.
1.8
Financial instruments
The company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.
Financial instruments are recognised in the company's balance sheet when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.
Basic financial assets
Basic financial assets, which include trade and other debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.
Impairment of financial assets
Financial assets, other than those held at fair value through profit and loss, are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting end date.
Financial assets are impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the financial asset, the estimated future cash flows have been affected. If an asset is impaired, the impairment loss is the difference between the carrying amount and the present value of the estimated cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. The impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.
If there is a decrease in the impairment loss arising from an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the impairment is reversed. The reversal is such that the current carrying amount does not exceed what the carrying amount would have been, had the impairment not previously been recognised. The impairment reversal is recognised in profit or loss.
Derecognition of financial assets
Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire or are settled, or when the company transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity, or if some significant risks and rewards of ownership are retained but control of the asset has transferred to another party that is able to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party.
Classification of financial liabilities
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Basic financial liabilities
Basic financial liabilities, including trade and other creditors, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.
Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.
Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
Derecognition of financial liabilities
Financial liabilities are derecognised when the company’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.
1.9
Taxation
The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.
Current tax
The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.
Deferred tax
Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all timing differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the timing difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.
The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the enacted or substantively enacted tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when the company has a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.
1.10
Employee benefits
The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense, unless those costs are required to be recognised as part of the cost of stock or fixed assets.
The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee’s services are received.
Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the company is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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1.11
Retirement benefits
Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.
1.12
Share-based payments
Equity-settled share-based payments are measured at fair value using an option pricing model at the date of grant. The fair value determined at the grant date is expensed on a straight-line basis over the vesting period, based on the estimate of shares that will eventually vest. A corresponding adjustment is made to equity.
When the terms and conditions of equity-settled share-based payments at the time they were granted are subsequently modified, the fair value of the share-based payment under the original terms and conditions and under the modified terms and conditions are both determined at the date of the modification. Any excess of the modified fair value over the original fair value is recognised over the remaining vesting period in addition to the grant date fair value of the original share-based payment. The share-based payment expense is not adjusted if the modified fair value is less than the original fair value.
Cancellations or settlements (including those resulting from employee redundancies) are treated as an acceleration of vesting and the amount that would have been recognised over the remaining vesting period is recognised immediately.
1.13
Leases
Rentals payable under operating leases, including any lease incentives received, are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the term of the relevant lease except where another more systematic basis is more representative of the time pattern in which economic benefits from the leases asset are consumed.
2
Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.
Depreciation of fixed assets
Annual depreciation charge for tangible assets is sensitive to changes in estimated useful economic lives and residual values of the assets, which are one of the areas in the financial statements where judgement has been applied.
Recoverability of debtors
Management makes an estimate of the recoverable value of trade and other debtors. When assessing the provision against trade and other debtors, management considers factors including the ageing profile of debtors as compared with contractual credit periods given and objective evidence concerning the financial standing of debtors.
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
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3
Employees
The average monthly number of persons (excluding directors) employed by the company during the year was:
2026
2025
Number
Number
Total
65
66
4
Taxation
2026
2025
£
£
Current tax
UK corporation tax on profits for the current period
175,525
204,583
Deferred tax
Origination and reversal of timing differences
37,302
(5,212)
Total tax charge
212,827
199,371
5
Intangible fixed assets
Website
£
Cost
At 1 April 2025
419,043
Additions
49,542
At 31 March 2026
468,585
Amortisation and impairment
At 1 April 2025
Amortisation charged for the year
93,038
At 31 March 2026
93,038
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2026
375,547
At 31 March 2025
419,043
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
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6
Tangible fixed assets
Plant and equipment
Fixtures and fittings
Computers
Motor vehicles
Total
£
£
£
£
£
Cost
At 1 April 2025
34,556
207,947
224,753
24,659
491,915
Additions
167
15,895
17,363
33,425
Disposals
(8,909)
(8,909)
At 31 March 2026
34,556
208,114
240,648
33,113
516,431
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 April 2025
34,004
163,807
180,801
15,750
394,362
Depreciation charged in the year
237
585
26,495
27,317
Eliminated in respect of disposals
(8,909)
(8,909)
At 31 March 2026
34,241
164,392
207,296
6,841
412,770
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2026
315
43,722
33,352
26,272
103,661
At 31 March 2025
552
44,140
43,952
8,909
97,553
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Debtors
2026
2025
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Trade debtors
647,486
911,388
Corporation tax recoverable
67,500
Other debtors
587,251
336,145
1,302,237
1,247,533
8
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2026
2025
£
£
Trade creditors
172,339
199,765
Corporation tax
243,025
204,583
Other taxation and social security
296,537
392,253
Other creditors
500,996
560,335
1,212,897
1,356,936
THE MODERN HOUSE LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
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9
Audit report information
As the income statement has been omitted from the filing copy of the financial statements, the following information in relation to the audit report on the statutory financial statements is provided in accordance with s444(5B) of the Companies Act 2006.
The auditor's report is unqualified and includes the following:
Opinion
In our opinion the financial statements:
give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 March 2026 and of its profit for the year then ended;
have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
Senior Statutory Auditor:
Richard Thacker
Statutory Auditor:
Beavis Morgan Audit Limited
Date of audit report:
29 October 2026
10
Directors' transactions
During the year, the company made interest-free loans to directors in the ordinary course of business.
At 31 March 2026, the aggregate amount due from directors was £200,000 (2025: £nil). The balances are unsecured, interest-free and repayable on demand.
The maximum aggregate amount outstanding during the year was £200,000.
During the year, the company paid dividends to directors of £550,000 (2025: £550,000).
11
Related party transactions
During the year the company made sales of £nil (2025: £3,283) to a related party by virtue of common control.
During the year the company purchased services of £90,000 (2025: £nil) from related parties by virtue of common control.