DAVID COVER AND SON LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£44,149,179
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of the manufacture, processing and supply of timber and building materials to trade and retail customers from depots across Sussex, Hampshire, Kent and Surrey.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1945-07-06
- Employees
- 453 (2025 accounts · was 460 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Sussex House, Quarry Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8PE
- Postcode
- PO19 8PE
- Capital
- 3,543,750 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 5 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-25
- Next due by
- 2026-11-08
Nature of business (SIC)
- 16100 Sawmilling and planing of wood
- 46130 Agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials
- 46730 Wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment
Officers 12 current · 15 resigned
Group structure 4 subsidiaries
Controlled by J.H.& F.W.GREEN LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2026 (period to 2025-12-31) — 4 years on the registry.
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z4742946 (Tier 3), registered since 2001.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- http://www.covers.biz/
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SUSSEX HOUSE QUARRY LANE, CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX, PO19 2PE | 1994-08-17 |
| 52, THE HORNET,, CHICHESTER, PO19 4JJ | 1994-05-18 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 137 similar companies in PO — measured against the wider sector
The largest employer among its local peers (453 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1945.
Property in England & Wales 23 titles
- Freehold
- 17
- Leasehold
- 6
- Most recent registration
- 2023-12-20
- Price paid, where recorded
- £15,221,816
- Where
- West Sussex (11), Greater London (4), Kent (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSX360119 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2023-12-20 | £2,575,000 |
| WSX443312 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2023-12-20 | — |
| WSX443175 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2023-10-10 | £5,021,644 |
| TT145970 | Kent | Freehold | 2022-10-13 | — |
| K721301 | Kent | Freehold | 2022-10-04 | — |
| HP629343 | Hampshire | Freehold | 2020-02-05 | £1,500,172 |
| WSX414717 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2019-12-19 | — |
| SGL597525 | Greater London | Freehold | 2019-10-07 | £450,000 |
| HP722091 | Hampshire | Leasehold | 2019-09-27 | £700,000 |
| HP830966 | Southampton | Freehold | 2019-03-26 | £2,075,000 |
| SGL383381 | Greater London | Freehold | 2018-11-23 | £1,650,000 |
| SGL556503 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2018-11-23 | — |
| SGL565942 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2018-11-23 | — |
| WSX372873 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2015-06-17 | £1,250,000 |
| K705218 | Kent | Freehold | 2012-08-22 | — |
| WSX287303 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2011-02-25 | — |
| WSX317121 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2008-02-29 | — |
| WSX305044 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2006-11-22 | — |
| WSX286569 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2005-01-13 | — |
| HP626143 | Hampshire | Freehold | 2003-02-24 | — |
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