Waterworks Cottages, Kiln Lane

1 and 2 WATERWORKS COTTAGES (now Waterworks Cottage and Corawell)

These two cottages do not appear on the 1870 OS map or the 1872 Drainage map.  They were at one point known as 1 and 2 Waterworks Cottages and would assume that they were built at about the same time as The Waterworks, i.e. 1873 onwards and possibly again by Hope Constable to Devey’s design.  In 1901 Kiln Lane is called ‘Brickyard Road’ and one of the cottages is occupied by Alfred Sales and family.  He is a foreman engineer; next door is Albert Stubbings, a gas and water man, domestic.  In 1911 Albert Stubbings, an engineer’s labourer, is still living at ‘Waterworks’ next door to George Hoath, an Estate Labourer, with his wife Annie, although the census only says ‘Lower Green’.   In 1939, Albert Humphrey and his wife are 1 Waterworks Cottages: he was a carpenter.  At no. 2 is Annie E Hoath who was born in 1880 – with family, but none are named on the 1939 Register.  (Little further information at the moment.)

Joyce Field (July 2021)