Excavations and a watching brief were carried on the fifteenth to sixteenth century timber frame farmhouse at Rayner’s Farm (NGR TL 465 485). The excavations in the ground floor of the main range revealed an eighteenth to nineteenth century dump deposit which sealed evidence of earlier timber floors and a possible house platform, which related to the present house. A watching brief also provided evidence on an earlier building, and exposed a clunch footing and floor which belonged to the present cross wing.