Roe Timber Frame Limited
Registered name: ROE TIMBER FRAME LIMITED
Part of Roe Limited groupRoe Timber Frame Limited made £15.6m revenue and £288k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2024.
Roe Timber Frame Limited’s revenue fell 26% to £15.6m in the year to 30 Apr 2024, with £288k profit and 102 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery” and is based in Margate; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Margate, South East
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “Roe Timber Frame Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £26.5m | £21.1m | £15.6m |
| Cost of sales | £25.2m | £17.2m | £12.3m |
| Gross profit | £1.3m | £3.9m | £3.3m |
| Profit before tax | −£2m | £435k | £213k |
| Profit after tax | −£1.3m | £264k | £288k |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.3m | £264k | £288k |
| Staff costs | £5.4m | £4.7m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 181 | 152 | 102 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −5% | 1.3% | 1.8% |
| Gross margin | 4.9% | 18.6% | 21.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £146k | £139k | £153k |
| Profit per employee | −£7.2k | £1.7k | £2.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼20.3% | ▼26.2% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲9.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼16% | ▼32.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £161k | £313k | £501k |
| Net assets | £2.1m | £2.4m | £2.7m |
| Fixed assets | £1.9m | £1.2m | £948k |
| Current assets | £9.6m | £7.3m | £6.3m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £1.1m | £928k |
| Cash from operations | −£2.4m | £862k | £823k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £153k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £2.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲60%
- Now £501k
- Headcount
- ▼33%
- Now 102
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼21%
- Now £948k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Roe Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Roe Timber Frame Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Roe Brickwork LimitedRev. — · Profit £815k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2024 (profit £288k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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