Keevill Heritage Ltd carried out an archaeological watching brief during foundation excavations for a new house immediately to the south of The Coach, a public house in the village of Words End, Beedon, West Berkshire. A post-medieval cottage is known to have existed within the development site, but the new house is set well back from the street frontage and therefore the old cottage (if any trace of it survives) was unaffected by the foundation excavations. These only exposed the site's natural geology and two modern features - a soakaway and a rubbish pit. No archaeological remains or artefacts of pre-modern date were found during the work, which was completed in a single day during October 2020.