For some reason it makes me feel as though I'm living in the Middle Ages
Thankfully I don't live anywhere near this. Or on the ground floor. But what could survive a mini-ice age, very small earthquakes, a couple of civil wars, papal interdicts, a reformation, an industrial revolution and the invention of the combustion engine doesn't really have a problem with a bit of flood water.

Love this picture. Makes me want to write fantasy novels about England being submerged and returning to a medieval lifestyle, only with the internet.

(this is Tewksbury Abbey by the way. Nearly 1000 years old.)