WESTERN BUILDING SYSTEMS LTD
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-01 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£15M
+171.8% highest in 4 filed years
Net assets
£14M
+18.7% highest in 4 filed years
Employees
52
-3.7% lowest in 4 filed years
Profit before tax
£3M
+56% highest in 4 filed years
Net assets
5-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
5-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2019-04-30 | 2020-04-30 | 2021-04-30 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £42,779,435 | £38,636,616 | £27,638,249 | £40,863,294 | |
| Operating profit | — | £1,854,104 | £949,962 | £1,828,930 | £2,859,574 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £1,866,817 | £955,271 | £1,941,638 | £3,028,577 | |
| Net profit | — | £1,479,686 | £961,627 | £1,453,460 | £2,247,742 | |
| Cash | — | £6,250,790 | £6,818,990 | £5,402,564 | £14,686,336 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £12,309,461 | £11,263,789 | £12,133,764 | £14,487,562 | |
| Net assets | — | £12,242,584 | £11,204,212 | £12,014,867 | £14,262,609 | |
| Equity | £10,762,898 | £12,242,584 | £11,204,212 | £12,014,867 | £14,262,609 | |
| Average employees | — | 74 | 64 | 54 | 52 | |
| Wages | — | £2,355,303 | £2,242,320 | £2,327,812 | £2,538,768 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £334,339 | £377,642 | £413,431 | £379,218 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
+47.9%
£27,638,249 £40,863,294
-
Cash
+171.8%
£5,402,564 £14,686,336
highest in 4 filed years
-
Net assets
+18.7%
£12,014,867 £14,262,609
highest in 4 filed years
-
Employees
-3.7%
54 52
lowest in 4 filed years
-
Operating profit
+56.4%
£1,828,930 £2,859,574
highest in 4 filed years
-
Profit before tax
+56%
£1,941,638 £3,028,577
highest in 4 filed years
-
Wages
+9.1%
£2,327,812 £2,538,768
highest in 4 filed years
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2019-04-30 | 2020-04-30 | 2021-04-30 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 4.3% | 2.5% | 6.6% | 7.0% | |
| Net margin | — | 3.5% | 2.5% | 5.3% | 5.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 15.1% | 8.4% | 15.1% | 19.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | — | 37.1% | 51.9% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | 2.67x | 1.90x | |
| Interest cover | — | 815.35x | 316.55x | — | 700.02x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WESTERN BUILDING SYSTEMS LTD 1995-06-26 → present
- MARTIN MCCLOSKEY LIMITED 1991-08-19 → 1995-06-26
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Corr & Corr
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company made a healthy profit during the year ended 30 April 2025 and at that date the company's assets exceeded its liabilities. The directors have an expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “ROI High Court litigation concluded on 30 June 2022. The information usually required by paragraph 21.15 of FRS 102 is not disclosed, because the Directors believe the required disclosure is impracticable and that to do so could prejudice its position.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCCLOSKEY, Nora | Secretary | 1991-08-19 | — | — |
| CANAVAN, Melissa | Director | 2012-11-30 | Oct 1980 | Irish |
| MCCLOSKEY, Declan | Director | 2012-11-30 | Apr 1979 | Irish |
| MCCLOSKEY, Martin | Director | 1991-08-19 | Jul 1954 | Irish |
| MCCLOSKEY, Nora | Director | 1991-08-19 | Apr 1957 | Irish |
| MCGUIGAN, Rory James | Director | 2019-12-17 | Mar 1978 | Irish |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Building Systems (Hld) Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-09-24 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 94 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-10 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-02-10 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2020-12-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-08-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-01-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-12-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-10-16 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2019-10-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-07-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2019-03-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.