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Company description
FARRANS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 19 May 1958; registered for 68 years; registered office reported in BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND. Its primary declared activity is 41100 · Development of building projects, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 7 procurement records, 1 waste registration. 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
- FARRANS LIMITED
- Company number
- NI004078
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 0 outstanding · 1 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 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
23 October 2025Next statement due
6 November 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 62.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- 69.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 88.9%
- Men receiving bonus
- 86.1%
- Women in top quartile
- 5.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 13.8%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 27.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 42.0%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 500 to 99938.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49992.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49995.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-4.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-1.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-2.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49991.5% 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
- 30 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- 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
- £31,466,763
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £77,996,532
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £8,056,662
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £25,975,624
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 52.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 2.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention parity policy
3% retention
Retention release
Retention monies are released in accordance with the relevant contract, following certification that the applicable release conditions have been met and receipt of the required invoice or payment application, where applicable.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- Yes
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 45.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 2.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Farrans does not have standard payment terms. Payment terms are agreed with suppliers as part of contract negotiations. The most frequently used payment terms in the reporting period are 30 days end of month
- Dispute resolution process
Farrans actively seeks to resolve disputes by discussing them with the relevant supplier(s), typically involving members of the accounts department, procurement and/or our commercial teams or senior management. Where it is not possible to reach agreement, dispute resolution methods (such as, mediation, adjudication, expert determination, litigation and / or arbitration) may be used.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 37.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay41.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay52.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay68.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay71.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay70.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay65.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay71.0% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- FARRANS LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- CRH plc
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 8 May 2026
- Sectors
- Construction, civil engineering and building products
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 23 June 2026
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Generation 5 2024 - 2028 Civil Engineering, Highways and Transportation Collaborative Framework - AWARD
IN-TEND LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-c31bf1dc-8381-4792-811a-ec8b664c126d
- Supplier named in award
- FARRANS CONSTRUCTION TRADING AS A DIVISION OF NORTHSTONE (NI) LI
- Award value
- £31,250,000
- Contract period
- 22 January 2024 – 21 January 2028
- Published
- 3 March 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 34922000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-c31bf1dc-8381-4792-811a-ec8b664c126d-2025-03-03T14:25:04Z
Delivery Integration Partnership (DIP)
Highways England · ocds-b5fd17-1cecd5ff-c486-4633-92b2-da3a00b95845
- Supplier named in award
- Farrans Construction trading as a division of Northstone (NI) Li
- Award value
- £8,700,000,000
- Contract period
- 19 November 2018 – 18 November 2024
- Published
- 28 December 2018
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 45000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1cecd5ff-c486-4633-92b2-da3a00b95845-2018-12-28T16:26:34Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mr Owen Henry SiskSee 6 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- Irish
- Country of residence
- Ireland
- Notified
- 31 October 2025
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-01-08T00:00:00Z
Northstone Materials Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Notified
- 31 May 2023
- Ceased
- 31 October 2025
Crh Building Products Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- England & Wales Companies House
- Registration number
- 00694656
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 31 May 2023
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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.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
SPT - Strategic Agreement for Substation Works
SP TRANSMISSION PLC · updated 22 August 2025
- Tender value
- £2,400,000,000
- Awards
- 5
London Construction Programme Major Works Education Framework MW24-E
London Borough of Haringey · updated 28 July 2025
- Tender value
- £3,000,000,000
- Awards
- 1
Wider Ecosystem
NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED · updated 25 October 2024
- Tender value
- £8,000,000,000
- Awards
- 47
Tees Pipeline
NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED · updated 9 March 2023
- Tender value
- £105,000,000
- Awards
- 1
Construction Framework 2025
Department for Education · updated 14 April 2026
- Tender value
- £15,400,000,000
- Awards
- 10
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
Construction of roads and motorways
Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c.
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
5 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
- Company name
Previous name: NORTHSTONE (NI) LIMITED
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts 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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.