---
title: "ESSEX COUNTY FREEHOUSES LTD — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/be0e702d-36f5-5ee1-80fd-3981ecbb297b
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/be0e702d-36f5-5ee1-80fd-3981ecbb297b
identifier: oo:GB-COH-11908536
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# ESSEX COUNTY FREEHOUSES LTD

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-11908536`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/be0e702d-36f5-5ee1-80fd-3981ecbb297b  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/be0e702d-36f5-5ee1-80fd-3981ecbb297b  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **John Bates** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/4896e619-c381-5f15-8d6c-345dffd51c31
- **John Bates** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/09667953-e835-4601-bbbc-c7fcf442de0f

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

A **2-step** ownership/control chain to the ultimate beneficial owner is resolved for this entity. The full cited chain unlocks with a paid API key or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `11908536`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 2019-03-27
- **Registered office:** The Crown, Little Walden, Saffron Walden, CB10 1XA, United Kingdom
- **SIC:** 56302

### Officers

- BATES, Philippa Jane — director · British · appointed 2019-03-27

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- John Bates — 75–100% shares · individual PSC · England — since 2019-03-27

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11908536
- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11908536

## Get the full, resolved dossier (agent-callable)

The above is the free teaser. The resolved **multi-hop UBO chain**, ownership **%**, full **financial history**, itemised **assets** and the hop-by-hop **exposure path** are the paid depth — callable as tools from your agent:

```bash
npx -y @whiteintel/mcp-server   # then: get_dossier · trace_ownership_path · check_offshore_exposure
```

Or unlock a one-off cited dossier for **ESSEX COUNTY FREEHOUSES LTD** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/be0e702d-36f5-5ee1-80fd-3981ecbb297b · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **ESSEX COUNTY FREEHOUSES LTD**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/be0e702d-36f5-5ee1-80fd-3981ecbb297b · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/be0e702d-36f5-5ee1-80fd-3981ecbb297b._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._