Usually - by consulting old copies of the electoral registers for the area. A few are on-line, but mostly you will need to look them up at county records office or at main libraries. The British Library has the "national collection", but quite a few pre-WW2 have been lost.
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Documents recording personal/family events such as BMD certificates or church bp/marr/burial registers would also give an address, if one of these events occured within the required time slot.
You could also look at newspapers of the time on a couple of sites - quite often addresses featured in the BMD sections. You can narrow searches down by putting in a surname and also the town and a 5 or 10 yr time slot.
Jay
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