Reg Cundick and Danny Howell, writing about the Live And Let Live public house, in the book The Inns & Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:
This inn is said to have been functioning over 300 years ago. It was at Portway, at the address now known as 17 Portway. The building here has very large oak beams and includes the workshop used for many years by E. Strong, a monumental mason, who succeeded his father in business. Ancestors of the Strong family were master stonemasons who worked under Sir Christopher Wren in the re-building of St. Paul’s Cathedral (1675-1708). In the interim period, between being an inn and a mason’s workshop, this part of Warminster was a wheelwright’s and wagon making business. It is not known when the Live And Let Live ceased to be.