Okehampton Close was built on the site of a house called Okehampton.
Building occurred west of Friern Barnet Lane, where a network of roads started to link the existing cul-de-sacs. The sites of large older houses were used. On the death of Sydney Simmons’s widow in 1935 her house, Okehampton was demolished and a private road - Okehampton Close- between Torrington and Friern parks and two- and three-storeyed flats were approved for the site.
