Sherwood Street may date from the 1860s.
Sherwood Street is built on part of the old Finchley Common. The enclosure map of 1811 shows that a field called the Mead had been taken out and used for growing grass and hay. It was owned in 1841 by William Bass, who was a blacksmith and had a forge behind the Three Horseshoes pub. He would have used the field for his horse.
The 1871 Ordnance Survey map shows Rasper Road, the Green (later Green Road) and what was to become Sherwood Street all existing but with only a few houses. Sherwood Street was developed between 1880 and 1890.
The street was designed as an architectural whole and is symmetrical.
