The watching brief was commissioned to examine and record any archaeological remains that may exist within the footprint for the proposed new building. All archaeological remains would be recorded and planned using pro forma records sheets and a full photographic record. Where practicable, hand-excavation of features would be carried out. The watching brief revealed the presence of at least two small medieval ditches, as well as the shillet foundations for the post-medieval Ridgeway Methodist Chapel and Sunday School that formerly occupied the site. Although the ditches are dated as medieval, there were no associated structural remains fronting onto Ridgeway, and it is therefore probable that these remains represent plot divisions for burgage tenements, as indicated on early 18th-century maps of Plympton