Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:
The Search Hoop was on the north side of the High Street, near the brow of the hill, on a site currently occupied by Warminster Arts Centre (the former Athenaeum).
The Search Hoop was in existence in 1695, when a shop at the rear of the property was sold on 2nd November. Deeds were exchanged between Richard Exton, a yeoman of Great Sutton, and Richard Hodge, a cloth-worker from Warminster (WRO 540/10/15).
The Search Hoop was recorded in the 1801 Survey Of Warminster when the landlord was William Adlam. The inn had its own brewhouse at the rear.
The Search Hoop was destroyed by fire in 1818. According to Manley, a coat-of-arms was discovered, carved in some stonework, when the remains of the inn were demolished. These were generally believed to be those of the Kyngeston family, whose Manor House was once on or near the site. Sir John de Kyngeston owned land at Corsley and Warminster during the reign of Edward II.
Another inn, The London Inn, was later built on the site of The Search Hoop.