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The Masons Arms was situated at 6 Aston Cantlow Road. This pub closed in 2019.

From Historic England:

The former Masons Arms public house faces the north side of Aston Cantlow Road, the main road through the village of Wilmcote. The pub is to the front of a large plot in the rear of which historic mapping depicts large stone pits and a quarry. The Masons Arms is understood to have been built as an inn around 1800 as part of the expansion of the quarry with which it shares the plot. At this time the Birmingham to Stratford Canal (completed 1816) was under construction, and this may well have been the explanation for the change from what was formerly small-scale extraction of stone to a larger, more organised quarry. Famously, the Blue Lias Wilmcote limestone was used by Charles Barry (1795-1860) for flooring in his Houses of Parliament (Grade I, National Heritage List for England 1226284). An outbuilding around six metres west of the Masons Arms, also on the roadside, appears to be contemporary with the public house and is understood to have been used as offices for the quarry. These buildings both appear on the 1886 Ordnance Survey (OS) map with further outbuildings depicted to the north. The 1905 OS map identifies a building immediately north of the pub as a smithy. Most of the outbuildings are depicted on the 1926 OS map, but by the time of survey of the 1969 Ordnance Survey map only the roadside building to the west and one building to the north-east remained. The Masons Arms was purchased by the Flowers brewery in 1897, soon after which a rear two-storey wing was added to the east end of the building and a new porch was added to the front. Another remodelling was carried out in the 1970s, and again in 1990 when a large rear conservatory was added. The public house ceased trading in 2019.

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