The site is located in the core of the historic village of Ruddington which is known to have Saxon origins. It has a boundary with the Grade II listed Church of St Peter which has thirteenth century origins but was largely rebuild during the Victorian period. The proposed new dwelling is located directly south-west of Church Side, a Grade II listed house believed to date from the mid-sixteenth century with later seventeenth and eighteenth century alterations and extensions. Work will also be undertaken within the south-west corner of the graveyard, consecrated in 1775. The groundwork was carried out under archaeological observation. All deposits exposed were inspected in order to identify any archaeological remains of interest, (including the barn foundations). Where possible these were cleaned by hand, examined and recorded. The absence of graves or disarticulated human skeletal material within the first area is due to the small proportion of the graveyard excavated and the relative late date, 1775, of its consecration. In the second area, the brickwork would indicate that the building extending from the west gable of Church Side demolished between 1938 and 1955 was erected, or altered, during the mid to late nineteenth century. The foundation trenches did not extend far enough east to encounter the buildings shown extending northwards from the former alms house into the curtilage of Church Side.