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There was a Ernest Edward Gaff, b 1895,  living very close to Cromer on the 1921 census

Thanks Kloumann for this too. I've just discovered Ernest Edward Gaff b1895 was son of Esau Gaff b1856 of Booton. Esau's older brother George Herbert Gaff b1847 at Reepham was Edward Slipper Gaff's father.

The fact that Edward's cousin's soon-to-be wife was living at No.14 certainly points to this No.19 in the picture being Chesterfield Cottages, and if so that would make it highly improbable that the man is anyone other than Edward, given everything else I know.

A feature of the cottages that can be viewed is that the brickwork over both door or downstairs window is a single vertical brick followed by two half bricks to form the vertical. The brickwork in the posted picture is quite, quite different.

Good point, although it wouldn't surprise me if some were in a different style. I suppose I could ask to have a look if I can visit Cromer, but I'm pretty sure both front and rear walls on the ground floor are now internal and have been plastered over.

I won't stop looking for alternate locations. I did consider that in writing "Cromer" the author may have meant "near Cromer", but I don't think any of the villages in the area are large enough to support a row of 19+ Victorian-era houses. Villages like Roughton were basically tiny hamlets in the 1920s with just a handful of dwellings.

Have you compared the no. of bricks in the bottom row over the door of the picture posted against the no. of bricks in any of the images available for Chesterfield Cottages on Streetview or for sale?

Unfortunately it's difficult because 1) many cottages, including no.19 now have porch extensions, 2) the cottages are on a gradient so the number of stones between doors and windows varies as you go down the row, and 3) the builders alternated between neat rows of flint stones, and a random placement, seemingly based on which side they got out of bed each morning (visible on streetview on the side elevation of no.20)

This is best view of 19 I can find, although the door pictured in 1920 could easily have been the door on the north side of the property rather than this one:

As you have discovered, it appears that Chesterfield Cottages was known formally as (or as part of) North Row back then.

James John Dennis married in 1921 and gave his address as 1 Chesterfield Cottages. In the electoral rolls his address is 1 North Row.

In the 1911 census there are at least three households (Blogg at 17, and Allen at 4 and 10) who gave addresses in Chesterfield Cottages but whose census returns were addressed to them in North Row.

In the 1920 and 1921 electoral rolls, Elizabeth Smith is at 19.

Thanks. I didn't think to look for alternate street names at first, because it's called "Chesterfield Cottages" now but also on the 1886 OS Map, and all maps I looked at in-between.