D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED
D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED is a private company limited by shares, registered in England and Wales under Companies House number 00316151. It was incorporated on 8 July 1936 and the register records its status as Active. The company trades as Squire’s Garden Centres and runs garden centres, each with a Squire’s Café Bar, in Surrey, Middlesex, Berkshire and West Sussex. Its registered office is at the Twickenham garden centre, Sixth Cross Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW2 5PA. The registered nature of business is SIC 47760: retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds, fertilisers, pet animals and pet food in specialised stores.
According to the business’s own website, it grew out of a garden landscaping business that David (D.J.) Squire started in Twickenham in 1936. The audited group accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025 list 17 garden centres: Badshot Lea, Chertsey, Cobham, Crawley, Frensham, Hare Hatch, Hersham, Long Ditton, Milford, Reigate, Shepperton, Stanmore, Twickenham, Washington, West Horsley, Woking and Wokingham. The nursery business trades as Barnsfold Liss Nurseries.
In those accounts, which were approved on 26 November 2025, consolidated revenue was £72.9m (2024: £66.8m). Garden-centre and restaurant sales made up £70.5m, nursery sales £2.2m and events income £0.15m. Consolidated profit before tax was £3.23m (2024: £2.06m) and profit for the year was £1.90m. The group employed an average of 985 people, including directors. At the parent-company level, D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED reported a profit of £2.345m (2024: £1.136m) and net assets of £52.3m at 31 July 2025. The accounts do not show the company’s own revenue separately, so the revenue figures above are consolidated.
The 2025 accounts record three developments. In December 2024 the group acquired the business of Liss Forest Nursery. On 5 February 2025 the group bought the freehold of Hare Hatch garden centre, at Twyford in Berkshire, for a total outlay of £8.13m. The group also took on £6.0m of new term borrowing. Capital expenditure for the year was £5.6m, including a roof replacement at Twickenham and an extension at Milford. The register lists 20 charges, of which 4 are outstanding, among them charge 0020, created on 20 February 2025 in favour of HSBC UK Bank plc.
Sources
- Companies House, company overview 00316151 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151 — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, group accounts made up to 31 July 2025 (filed 18 April 2026) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/filing-history/MzUxNTYwNDE2NWFkaXF6a2N4/document — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, charges register — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/charges — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Squire’s Garden Centres, privacy notice (names D. J. Squire & Co., Limited, company number 00316151) — https://www.squiresgardencentres.co.uk/privacy/ — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Squire’s Garden Centres, history page — https://www.squiresgardencentres.co.uk/about/history/ — retrieved 2026-10-15
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Shareholders
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Shareholders of D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED
The company has one class of share: 82,500 ordinary shares of £1 each, all allotted, called up and fully paid. They rank equally for voting, dividends and return of capital (note 23 to the accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025). The latest full shareholder list is in the confirmation statement dated 22 August 2025. It names ten holders, all listed by initials and surname, and their holdings add up to exactly 82,500 shares. The next confirmation statement, dated 22 August 2026, was filed “with no updates”, so that list is still the latest one filed.
Holdings at 22 August 2025, as a percentage of issued share capital:
| Holder (as filed) | Ordinary shares | % of issued capital |
|---|---|---|
| E. SQUIRE | 20,750 | 25.15% |
| S. SQUIRE | 20,750 | 25.15% |
| M.D.F. CODY | 11,000 | 13.33% |
| J.D. CODY | 9,000 | 10.91% |
| C. SQUIRE | 7,000 | 8.48% |
| E.L. CODY | 6,000 | 7.27% |
| Four further holders, 2,000 shares each | 8,000 | 9.70% (2.42% each) |
The holder C. SQUIRE transferred 10,000 shares on 2 October 2024 and another 8,000 on 8 May 2025. The four 2,000-share holders first appear on the August 2025 statement. Each confirmation statement records the transfer but not who received the shares.
The shareholder table shown elsewhere on this page lists only 5 of the 10 holders. Its share counts and percentages for those five match the filed list exactly.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
The Companies House register of persons with significant control (PSC) lists two individuals, both notified on 28 October 2024: Sarah Catherine Elaine Squire and Elizabeth Jane Caroline Squire. Each is registered for ownership of shares of more than 25% but not more than 50%. No company appears on the filed shareholder list, so no intermediate holding company sits in the chain. These bands are consistent with the two 20,750-share holdings (25.15% each) on the filed list. An earlier PSC entry for a third individual, registered in the same band, ceased on 28 October 2024. Note 28 to the 2025 accounts states that there is no single ultimate controlling party and that the directors consider the company to be controlled by members of the Squire family.
Data availability
Full: UK private companies file a complete list of shareholders with Companies House, and PSC entries give ownership in bands rather than exact figures. The percentages above are calculated from the filed share counts. Shareholders are named exactly as filed, by initials, and no holder has been matched to a named individual beyond what the PSC register itself states.
Sources
- Companies House, confirmation statement made on 22 August 2025 (with updates) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/filing-history/MzQ3ODM4OTU5MWFkaXF6a2N4/document — filed 22 August 2025, retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, confirmation statement made on 25 November 2024 (with updates) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/filing-history/MzQ0NDczODc5M2FkaXF6a2N4/document — filed 25 November 2024, retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, filing history (confirmation statement of 22 August 2026, no updates) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/filing-history — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, persons with significant control — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/persons-with-significant-control — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, group accounts made up to 31 July 2025, notes 23 and 28 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/filing-history/MzUxNTYwNDE2NWFkaXF6a2N4/document — filed 18 April 2026, retrieved 2026-10-15
Data-provider feed — rows as supplied to Zavia for Companies House, including entries the profile above does not cover. These rows are not a verbatim copy of the register: they have been found to duplicate the same person under different spellings and to keep a status of Active after an appointment ended. Where they disagree with the profile above, the profile is the checked version.
| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| E. SQUIRE | 25.2% | Companies House | |
| S. SQUIRE | 25.2% | Companies House | |
| M.D.F. CODY | 13.3% | Companies House | |
| J.D. CODY | 10.9% | Companies House | |
| C. SQUIRE | 8.5% | Companies House |
Officers
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Directors and officers of D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED
The Companies House officer register lists 23 appointments for D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED. Twelve are current: 11 directorships and one company secretaryship. Mark Alastair Wilson holds both the secretaryship and a directorship, both from 28 April 2017. The other 11 appointments have ended (nine directorships and two secretaryships).
The longest-serving current directors are Colin Stuart Squire and Janet Deirdre Eileen Cody. For both, the register says only “appointed before 8 December 1991”. That is a cut-off date in the register, not an appointment date, so their actual appointment dates are not given. Sarah Catherine Elaine Squire has been a director since 29 March 1994. Robert Andrew Collins and Anthony John Perkins were appointed in 2021. Four directors were appointed on 13 May 2025: Ricky Bowness, Mark David Franklin Cody, Ross Andrew McEwan and Elizabeth Jane Caroline Squire. Samantha Lena Dickson followed on 17 July 2025. The accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025 describe S C E Squire as Chairman and C S Squire as Chairman Emeritus. The chairman’s statement in those accounts names Sam Dickson as the new Managing Director.
The register records the nationality of every current director as British. Place of residence is recorded as England, except for one director recorded as United Kingdom. All current officers use the registered office as their correspondence address.
Recent officer changes
- 17 July 2025: Samantha Lena Dickson appointed director, and Martin Nicholas Breddy’s directorship ended on the same day (AP01 and TM01 filed 17 July 2025). The 2025 chairman’s statement describes this as the retirement of the outgoing Managing Director and the arrival of his successor.
- 13 May 2025: Ricky Bowness, Mark David Franklin Cody, Ross Andrew McEwan and Elizabeth Jane Caroline Squire appointed directors (four AP01 forms filed 18 June 2025).
- 31 May 2024: Darran Oakley’s directorship ended (TM01 filed 3 June 2024).
Data availability
Full: the register publishes current and former appointments with dates, nationality, country of residence and month and year of birth. Appointments made before December 1991 have no exact date. The officer table elsewhere on this page holds 5 rows, while the provider reports 20 in total and the register shows 23. Two of those rows give a precise appointment date of 8 December 1991 that the register does not state. One row puts the director’s full name in the surname field. The register spells one director’s middle name “Eileen”, but the CH01 filed on 21 August 2025 spells it “Elaine”. Both spellings are reported here as filed.
Sources
- Companies House, officers of 00316151 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/officers — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, filing history of 00316151 (AP01, TM01, CH01 forms 2024–2025) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/filing-history — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, group accounts made up to 31 July 2025 (directors and advisers page; chairman’s statement) — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/filing-history/MzUxNTYwNDE2NWFkaXF6a2N4/document — filed 18 April 2026, retrieved 2026-10-15
Data-provider feed — rows as supplied to Zavia for Companies House, including entries the profile above does not cover. These rows are not a verbatim copy of the register: they have been found to duplicate the same person under different spellings and to keep a status of Active after an appointment ended. Where they disagree with the profile above, the profile is the checked version.
Group Structure
Group structure of D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED
D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED is the parent company of the Squire’s group and prepares consolidated accounts. It has no corporate parent: its filed shareholder list contains no company, and note 28 to its 2025 accounts states that there is no single ultimate controlling party. Note 15 to the accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025 says the company owns the entire ordinary share capital of three English companies. They are Barnsfold Nurseries Limited, which runs the nursery business, and Milford Garden Centre Limited and Shoots Garden Centres Limited, both of which are dormant. A fourth company, Foxbury (West Horsley) Limited, became a subsidiary after that year end. Its own PSC register names D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED (00316151) as holding 75% or more of its shares and voting rights from 25 November 2025. All four subsidiaries are registered in England and have their registered office at Squire’s Group Office, Badshot Lea Road, Farnham.
Verified corporate relationships
| Entity | Country | Registration number | Relationship | Ownership | Status | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsfold Nurseries Limited | United Kingdom (England) | 09320559 | Direct subsidiary | 100% of ordinary share capital | Active | 31 July 2025 (accounts note 15) |
| Milford Garden Centre Limited | United Kingdom (England) | 08721474 | Direct subsidiary (dormant) | 100% of ordinary share capital | Active | 31 July 2025 (accounts note 15) |
| Shoots Garden Centres Limited | United Kingdom (England) | 02621875 | Direct subsidiary (dormant) | 100% of ordinary share capital | Active | 31 July 2025 (accounts note 15) |
| Foxbury (West Horsley) Limited | United Kingdom (England) | 00825112 | Direct subsidiary | 75% or more of shares and voting rights (PSC band; exact percentage not verified) | Active | 25 November 2025 (PSC notification) |
Recent structural changes
- 25 November 2025: D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED became the registrable relevant legal entity of Foxbury (West Horsley) Limited. On 1 December 2025 Foxbury moved its registered office to the Squire’s Group Office and shortened its accounting period to end on 31 July.
- December 2024: the group acquired the business of Liss Forest Nursery. This was a purchase of a business, not of a company, and it now operates as Barnsfold Liss Nurseries.
Data availability
Partial but well documented: the subsidiaries come from the audited accounts and are confirmed by each subsidiary’s own PSC entry naming the company by its number. Foxbury’s exact holding will not appear in group accounts until the year to 31 July 2026. D.J. Squire Property and Investment Company Limited (00740100), which shares the registered office and rents the Chertsey garden centre to the company, is disclosed in note 28 as a related party, not a subsidiary. No ownership link between the two companies is disclosed.
Sources
- Companies House, group accounts made up to 31 July 2025, notes 15 and 28 — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00316151/filing-history/MzUxNTYwNDE2NWFkaXF6a2N4/document — filed 18 April 2026, retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, Barnsfold Nurseries Limited PSC register — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09320559/persons-with-significant-control — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, Milford Garden Centre Limited PSC register — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08721474/persons-with-significant-control — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, Shoots Garden Centres Limited PSC register — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02621875/persons-with-significant-control — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, Foxbury (West Horsley) Limited PSC register and filing history — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00825112/persons-with-significant-control — retrieved 2026-10-15
- Companies House, D.J.SQUIRE PROPERTY AND INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED overview — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00740100 — retrieved 2026-10-15
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D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED do?
D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED (Companies House 00316151, incorporated 8 July 1936) trades as Squire's Garden Centres. Its 2025 accounts list 17 garden centres with café bars in south-east England, plus a nursery business.
Who owns D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED?
The confirmation statement of 22 August 2025 lists ten individual shareholders holding all 82,500 £1 ordinary shares. The two largest holdings are 20,750 shares each (25.15%), and the list was confirmed unchanged on 22 August 2026.
Who is D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
The Companies House PSC register names Sarah Catherine Elaine Squire and Elizabeth Jane Caroline Squire, each with more than 25% but not more than 50% of the shares (notified 28 October 2024). The company's accounts state there is no single ultimate controlling party.
What is D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED's company registration number?
D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED's registration number is 00316151, filed with Companies House in United Kingdom. Its current status on the register is active.
Is D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED still an active company?
D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED's status on Companies House is listed as active.
When was D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED incorporated?
D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED was incorporated on 8 July 1936, according to Companies House.
What is D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED's registered address?
The registered address on file for D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED is MIDDX, United Kingdom.
What legal structure is D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED registered as?
D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED is registered as a Private limited company (Ltd.) in United Kingdom.
What is D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED's revenue?
For the year ended 31 July 2025 the group reported consolidated revenue of £72.9m (2024: £66.8m) and consolidated profit before tax of £3.23m. The parent company's own profit was £2.345m; its own revenue is not disclosed separately.
Is D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED listed on a stock exchange?
D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED is a private limited company and is not listed on any stock exchange.
Who are the officers/directors of D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED?
Companies House lists 11 current directors and one company secretary. The four most recent directors were appointed on 13 May 2025 and one on 17 July 2025.
Does D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED have a parent company or subsidiaries?
D.J.SQUIRE & CO.,LIMITED is the parent company and has no corporate parent. It wholly owns Barnsfold Nurseries Limited, Milford Garden Centre Limited and Shoots Garden Centres Limited, and since 25 November 2025 has held 75% or more of Foxbury (West Horsley) Limited.
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