One good example thats close to home (to me anyway) is "Ye Olde Pump House' in Hastings Old Town. However, a closer look reveals some inaccuracies that can be slightly misleading, and confirmed by doing some research. It's crucial to look beyond superficial charm and understand the true history and materials of a structure. Not everything that assumes to be "old", is old. 

The nearby town called Battle is full of secrets IMHO, aided it would appear, by English Heritage and Their stories of the Battle Of Hastings 1066.

Whilst Ye Olde Pump House, Hastings Old Town, does appear to be, aesthetically, a lovely old Pub,  the truth is that it was totally remodelled back in the early 1950's.

Prior to those, very convincing looking works, the building was used as a shoe shop named Stokes & Carey, and became quite delapidated following suffering some WW2 Bomb damage. At the time the building was apparently regarded as a 'blot on the landscape' which prompted Hastings Council (corporation) to serve an enforcement order on its restoration in 1946.

The recorded owner at that time was a Mr William Newman, and fortunately he apparently had an interest in England's Heritage, and Ye Olde Pump House was born, by using old timbers (not ships), sourced from other buildings undergoing works, that were on the same 'plot' as the former shoe shop. The original building does indeed date back to the very early C17th, and is listed, according to E H (so 'alledgedly' is needed, IMHO).

With my inquisitive head on, instead of feeding E H with lots of money, maybe first ask for some "proof?". Battle town itself appears to be a breeding ground for "armchair experts" and this is one town where I lived, and I heard, on many occasions, about the 'definite' use of OLD SHIPS TIMBERS (click on the link, and see what you think) used in many of the buildings with exposed beams, and also of a few sandstone block buildings, built from the demolition of Battle Abbey during the 5yr period (1536 -1541) known as the dissolution of monastries, by Henry VIIIth, when Catholicism didn't fit with his love of killing his wives and remarrying new ones, so he set up the Church of England Instead.

The alledged 'battlefield' has been explored many times, with the Time Team Televised edition being shown to the world in 2013, yet nothing has ever been found in decades of archaeology; no proof of 'the world famous batte', but one of the buildings on the plot was turned into a private school, so thats more money for E H through rent.

Currently the pan is 'simmering', because the French (the alledged Victors of an alledged battle) have agreed for their Bayeaux Tapestry to be 'loaned' to England for a while, so undoubtedly that will solve this near 1000 year old mystery.: I write undoubtedly, for good reason. Hopefully I'm not the only living person who has Surveyed King Harold's old building with the old Yew tree that still stands next to it today, a yew tree that would've been fruit baring 1000 years ago, and from images I have researched, would have resembled 'the renowned apple tree' depicted on the Bayeaux Tapestry, (I saw a replica decades ago hung in Hastings Town Hall as a very young boy, before it apparently disappeared, so the original would really be great to see). No doubt the Victor's will have produced an accurate tapestry that is incredibly detailed, specifically for the benefit of the losers (England) because the French are lovely and a amaaaaaaazing (in today's English language anyway, and Charles Darwin did end his theory of evolution with a full stop, so even grammer and simple english language comprehension appears to have disappeared nowadays)

So why are people charged money to see 'a former demolition job', with no proof of an alledged battle? And just how amaaaazingly fortunate, is was that those sandstone blocks which of course were removed with such care, and completely undamaged, following one of Henry VIIIth's strops,  that they were ready to just build more beautiful buildings, where luckily you can go and spend more money on food and drink these days. 🤔.

So keep the 14th of October in your diary, because that's the exact date in 1066, when this globally famed battle alledgedly took place, and such anniversary celebrations  are hosted for a price of course, but obviously E H conveniently forget that the calendars were changed in 1582, from the previous Julian calendar, to the current Gregorian calender, and dates got a bit 'adjusted' due to the approximte 11 minutes of time lost every day due to lunar cylcles, since that changeover. So dont be an April fool: just be inqusitive instead. 🤔, so 453 years X 365days (+leap years) = ?