Reg Cundick and Danny Howell in the book The Inns And Taverns Of Warminster, published in November 1987, stated:
The Bear Inn, Warminster
The Bear was situated on the east side of The Anchor in the Market Place. The site, on the north side of the street, is occupied today by Paynes the newsagents. These premises were formerly (before Paynes) International Stores and before that they were the shop and office of an ironmonger called Hurlstone.
The 1801 Survey of Warminster records the Bear Inn under Plot 421 but (according to an additional entry in the record of the Survey) by 1803 it had been sold to John Pring, druggist. Daniell and Halliday both suggest that its origins go back to the 1700s and Halliday also states that it was once called the Cross Keys.