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.
