Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published, in November 1987, stated:
An inn known as The Bull or The Black Bull, recorded in the 1801 Survey of Warminster, was situated at West End; the tenant being A. Whittock. West End in 1801 stretched from the Obelisk to Bleeck’s Buildings at West Street. The eastern part of it is known as Vicarage Street today, the other part being West Street.
An entry in Book 13 of The Parish Registers of St. Denys’ Church, Warminster, reads: “Patrick McKey (an Irishman) barberously [sic] murdered at the Bull Inn, West End, August 30th 1820, aged 49.”
The inn was still called The Bull in 1822 but by 1830 the name had changed to The Star.