Summary

These cottages which are no longer standing were known as "coronation" or "Coronet" cottages.  According to Dorothy Whitbread, former post mistress interviewed in 1965, the cottages only acquired this name in the 1920s.

The cottages are believed to have been built on the instruction of Edward Watts in the 1820s.  They replaced earlier buildings on the same site.  These earlier buildings included the Royal Oak which is described as a "homestead and garden" in a survey of 1779, but is believed to have been a public house.  John Gurney is recorded as the tenant, and is also shown in the register of Alehouse keepers as licensed to run the Royal Oak.  The last licence for the Royal Oak was issued in 1819.

The cottages built in the 1820s were demolished in 1965.  When they were demolished, a plaque on them was taken by Albert Crick to 12 High Street, where it still rests in the garden.  The plaque bears the date 1712 and the arms of Lucy Pelham after her marriage to Gervase Pierrepont, 1^st and only Baron Pierrepont of Hanslope.  It seems likely that the plaque came from an earlier building, perhaps on this site.