Barkwell Properties Limited
Registered name: BARKWELL PROPERTIES LIMITED
Barkwell Properties Limited made £20.2m revenue and £194k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Barkwell Properties Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £20.2m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £194k profit and 127 employees. The company is classified under “buying and selling of own real estate” and is based in Okehampton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Okehampton, South West
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18.2m | £18.2m | £20.2m |
| Cost of sales | £15.1m | £15.2m | £17.2m |
| Gross profit | £3.1m | £3m | £3m |
| Operating profit | −£256k | £2.7k | £333k |
| Profit before tax | −£303k | £36.3k | £814k |
| Profit after tax | £155k | £251k | £194k |
| Profit (best available) | £155k | £251k | £194k |
| Staff costs | £6.7m | £6.3m | £5.7m |
| Employees (average) | 181 | 150 | 127 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% |
| Gross margin | 17% | 16.5% | 14.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £101k | £121k | £159k |
| Profit per employee | £856 | £1.7k | £1.5k |
| Cash conversion | — | 51930% | −406.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.4% | ▲11.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲62.2% | ▼22.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼17.1% | ▼15.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.8k | £10.3k | £3.1m |
| Net assets | £825k | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Fixed assets | £6m | £5m | £1m |
| Current assets | £651k | £911k | £3.3m |
| Debtors | £7.2k | £12k | £154k |
| Cash from operations | £449k | £1.4m | −£1.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £159k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −406.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 5.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.8%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲18%
- Now £1.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲30021%
- Now £3.1m
- Headcount
- ▼15%
- Now 127
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼79%
- Now £1m
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Barkwell Developments LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £194k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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