The development area is located to the north-east of the village of Stanford-on-Soar and c5km north of Loughborough. The site comprises the grade II* listed Stanford Hall and associated buildings which lie within Stanford Hall Registered Park and Garden (grade II), covering an area of approximately 120ha. With the exception of eight small, hand-dug test pits, the topsoil and non-structural post-medieval and later deposits were removed by a mechanical excavator to reveal significant archaeological remains or, where these were absent, the natural substrate. The groundwork areas were cleaned sufficiently to enable the identification and definition of archaeological features, if present. The possible brick-lined field drain noted in one trench could be evidence of a 17th or 18th-century drainage system within the park. Within another trench, there was evidence for possible post-medieval or modern road surfacing layers. In one of the test pits, the mortar and brick foundation may represent some form of kerb stone or edging to an earlier, possibly post-medieval or modern access road. No archaeological artefacts or remains predating the post-medieval and modern periods were found during the trenching work within the development area.