The difficulty with many village census results, cetainly in our village which is nothing exceptional, is that until the beginning of the 20th century many village streets did not have numbers, nor did the cottages have names, so the census return goes: Cow Lane; cottage 1, cottage 2, cottage 3, cottage 4, etc.
As many cottages have been demolished and other houses divided up into smaller cottage or amalgamated to make a bigger houses, it is well nigh impossible to reliably to link census cottages with current dwellings. Ours were done because researchers were doing extenasive studies of our villages, and had access to the manorial records in the Westminster Abbey archive.
I wouldn't disagree with GSM but your best bet is if the village was owned by an Oxbridge College or a still existant religious organisation, as we were by Westminster Abbey, because they never throw anything away and usually have all the manorial records for the manors they owned, stashed away in their library somewhere.
Big estates change hands and few kept records indefinitely, then there are fires and the like.