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Company description
J. MURPHY & SONS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 28 February 1951; registered for 75 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 42990 · Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c..
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 trade mark, 3 procurement records, 1 waste registration, 2 other public-register records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- J. MURPHY & SONS LIMITED
- Company number
- 00492042
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 37 total · 3 outstanding · 34 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
31 December 2025Next statement due
14 January 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 9.6%
- Mean bonus gap
- 31.9%
- Women receiving bonus
- 75.2%
- Men receiving bonus
- 62.4%
- Women in top quartile
- 10.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 11.5%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 16.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 28.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499922.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499923.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499925.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499924.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499917.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499929.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499923.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499923.8% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 31 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 45 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- Network Rail Fair Payment Charter
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £253,165,625
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £38,299,828
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £10,610,318
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £42,110,202
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 11.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 1.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 45 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
45 days from the month end date following the invoice date.
Retention circumstances
Retention provisions are included only in certain qualifying construction contracts where they are necessary to protect against project delivery and defects liability risks. The use of retention is considered on a case-by-case basis and is not a standard requirement across all construction contracts.
Retention parity policy
Where retention provisions are included in qualifying construction contracts, J Murphy & Sons Limited seeks to ensure that the retention terms applied to its suppliers are no more onerous than those imposed on Murphy by its client under the same project and this is reflected in Group wide guidance. Retention arrangements are considered on a project-specific basis and are intended to reflect the relevant contractual and commercial risks fairly throughout the supply chain and retention provisions are included only in certain qualifying construction contracts where they are necessary to protect against project delivery and defects liability risks .
Retention release
Retention monies are released in accordance with the relevant contract terms once the conditions for release have been satisfied. This generally includes completion of the works, resolution of any outstanding defects and, where applicable, expiry of the defects liability period. Retained sums are paid promptly following confirmation that the contractual release criteria have been met.
Retention release stages
Retention is generally released in stages, with 50% paid on completion of the works and the remaining 50% paid at the end of the defects liability period, subject to any identified defects having been remedied and the relevant contractual requirements being met.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 44.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 2.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The standard payment terms for J Murphy & Sons Limited are 28 days from month end of invoice.
However, where necessary, J Murphy & Sons Limited is committed to being flexible in its approach, reviewing and agreeing terms and conditions during contract negotiations. - Dispute resolution process
J Murphy & Sons Limited are committed to fair treatment of its supply chain. The Accounts Payable Shared Services Centre within the UK manages the interface between the business and its supply chain.
Disputes that cannot be resolved by the Accounts Payable Shared Service Centre are escalated to the procurement team who are organised by business unit. Should the responsible procurement team member fail to resolve a dispute then an internal escalation process is followed. The procurement Authority Matrix levels are – Procurement Manager, Senior Procurement Manager, Head of Procurement and Procurement Director.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 14.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
J. MURPHY & SONS LIMITED
LEI 2138004COVYU3YL8AI88 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 28 February 1951
- Initial LEI registration
- 28 March 2018
- LEI last updated
- 27 January 2026
- Next renewal
- 28 March 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- HIVIEW HOUSE, HIGHGATE ROAD, LONDON, GB-LND, NW5 1TN, GB
- Headquarters address
- HIVIEW HOUSE, HIGHGATE ROAD, LONDON, GB-LND, NW5 1TN, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
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UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
J. Murphy & Sons Limited
15 June 2023 · Improvement Notice
J. Murphy & Sons Limited
16 January 2014 · Construction
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
J. Murphy & Sons Limited
Registration Z5856495
- Registered from
- 22 January 2002
- Current end date
- 21 January 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Drilton Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 02732620
- Notified
- 16 May 2016
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
CO Services – Transmission Training Campus Lead Designer – 1127
SSE plc · updated 10 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 146
London Construction Programme General Works Framework MW25-GW
London Borough of Haringey · updated 8 July 2026
- Tender value
- £3,000,000,000
- Awards
- 44
Great Grid Partnership
NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION PLC · updated 30 May 2024
- Tender value
- £9,280,000,000
- Awards
- 2
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
3 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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