Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:
The house now called Portway Villa, on the west side of the road at Portway was formerly an inn called The Butchers Arms.
In the 1783 Inclosure Award Of Warminster the owner of the property is given as the Rev. W. Slade and the tenant is recorded as W. Lambe.
Daniell recorded this inn, so did Halliday who stated that it had also been called The Carpenters Arms.
Prior to the 1801 Survey Of Warminster it had closed as an inn, and was then the residence of Benjamin Everett, the son of a local clothier who lived in a larger house further south along Portway.
For a time the former Butchers Arms was used as the “manse” for the Minister of the North Row Baptist Chapel, Warminster.