Briarfield Avenue backs onto Finchley Cricket Club.
Land north of East End Road was leased for building from 1864. Avenue House was built there in 1867 and its freehold sold in 1874 to H. C. Stephens, who rebuilt it in the 1880s as a 40-bedroom pile in a ’reactionary Italianate’ style. Hertford Lodge, also large, was built next to it in 1869.
Moat estate, 13 acres of Bibbesworth land between the railway and Manor Farm, was offered for building in 1905 and Briarfield Avenue stood there by 1920.
