The Carpenter’s Arms Public House (aka the Bricklayers Arms) 148 Cotton End Road. Wilshamstead
A countywide licensing register of 1876 states that The Carpenter’s Arms, then, briefly, called the Bricklayers Arms, had been licensed for over a century.
However, the first countywide licensing register, of 1822, seems to disprove this as it does not record the Carpenters Arms.
The next year, 1823, does record the public house and so do the remaining countywide registers from 1824 to 1828 so it is possible that the 1822 list simply missed the establishment.
Incidentally, the name Bricklayers Arms is only recorded in the 1876 register, directories of 1869 and 1877 refer to the Carpenters Arms, so the name change seems to have been very short-lived.
The last directory to mention the Carpenters Arms is Kelly’s for 1894.
It seems, therefore, as if the Carpenters Arms closed between 1894 and 1898.
A modern house now stands on the site of the old pub though it stands back from Cotton End Road whereas the Carpenters Arms stood right on the road.