The Tweed

The Tweed is an 18th-century end chimney house located on Tweed Lane in Ifield. It stands two storeys tall with attics in the gable end and features red brick with a diaper pattern created by burnt headers. The old tiled roof extends over an outshut at the rear. The building has four altered casement windows and a projecting brick band between the ground and first floors, which has the date 1737 inscribed multiple times along with sets of initials. Red brick dressings accent the quoins and windows, and there are brick chimney breasts and stacks on the end walls, with tile-hung gable ends on each side. The entrance has a simple doorcase. Inside, the transverse beams of the ground floor rooms are exposed, and there are open fireplaces. The staircase leading to the outshut features an 18th-century balustrade. The tie beams in the attic display the carpenter's marks, and the west internal wall of the main range is constructed of timber framework with some remaining wattle and daub infilling. Historically, this building served as the parish workhouse and more recently functioned as a pair of cottages.