An archaeological watching brief of ground disturbance was conducted during the construction of two detached residential propoerties on land immediately to the west of an existing building at 20/22 Main Street, Rempstone, Nottinghamshire. The village of Rempstone is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Although the present village is situated to the south of cross-roads on the Nottingham-Loughborough Road, the position of an earlier church appears to indicate migration of the village from an earlier position to the north-west of the cross-roads. Howeverm Anglo-Saxon artefacts have been found in the vicinity of the site in the preesent village and medieval house platforms still show in the adjacent field. The present house at 20/22 Main Street is believed to be on the location of an earlier farmhouse possbly demolished in the 1930's. The two new propoerties are situated in what had been partly garden, yard and driveway for the earlier farm. Land to the outh is meadow alongside the nearby stream. The area of the first building was on sloping ground and had to be levelled to create a terrace. Both the topsoil and subsoil contained much building rubble and modern debris. A brick boundary wall along the north edge of the first building area was cut through. Several small features were observed in plan cutting into the natural. These included two small animal burials (one of a cockerel), several possible postholes, and a shallow linear feature. The area was later excavated for wall trenches, but inspection of these revealed only one probable natural feature. No archaeological remains were observed during the groundworks carried out for the second building. The only features seen were geological in nature. Only a single small residual medieval pottery sherd was found during trowelling of the subsoil. All other finds were of post-medieval origin, and generally late in date. The postholes may have indicated a former irregular fenceline, which ran roughly parrallel to a dip in the natural noted in both the north-east and south-west sections of the first building area. This dip may indicate the edge of the terrace, although whether man-made or natural is unclear. It may be a geological feature associated with the line of the watercourse to the south. It may also line up with the southern boundary of the grounds of the former Rectory building. This may prove to be an older demarcation that follows the slope and the fenceline may be part of it. It would predate the former farmhouse and its outbuildings, for which the debris evidence and the brick boundary wall suggests a relatively late post-medieval date.