Harnessing the abstract power of the celebrated result due to Borichev and Tomilov (Math. Ann. 347:455-478, 2010, no. 2), we study the energy decay in a one-dimensional coupled wave-heat-wave system. We obtain a sharp estimate for the rate of energy decay of classical solutions by first proving a growth bound for the resolvent of the semigroup generator and then applying the asymptotic theory of C0-semigroups. The present article can be naturally thought of as an extension of a recent paper by Batty, Paunonen, and Seifert (J. Evol. Equ. 16:649-664, 2016) which studied a similar wave-heat system via the same theoretical framework.with all the functions being understood to have been extended by zero in ξ to the interval (−1, 1). If the solution is sufficiently regular, a routine 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 35M33, 35B40, 47D06 (34K30).