The town of Hoorn consists mainly of deep houses. Often these were later stripped of their gable or provided with a new facade. Behind such younger facades are often old caps, beam layers, wooden frames or spiral stairs. Homes from before the end of the 16th century are almost non-existent in Hoorn. An exception is the high merchant house Korenmarkt 8 from 1547 (d). The shoulder gable with pilasters is the result of a restoration in 1979-'81 (A. Hangelbroek-Gouwetor). Internally, the wood skeleton has been preserved with ovoid carved key pieces. With dates dated, the later renovated buildings Grote Oost 83-85 (1587) and Muntstraat 26 (1596). The building at Kruisstraat 2, a rear building of Lange Kerkstraat 11, still has an overhanging façade on consoles (17th century).
17th century houses
Especially in the first half of the 17th century many houses with stepped gables were built in Hoorn. That bloom was partly the result of a sea battle in 1573, when a Spanish fleet under the command of Admiral De Bossu on the Hoornsche Hop was defeated by a funeral fleet. That battle is shown in detail in the pulped list of the three Bossuhuizen built around 1612 (Grote Oost 132, Slapershaven 1-2). One of these buildings was rebuilt of the stepped gable in 1897 and the left-hand wall was reconstructed in 1954 (V.J. Polman). The relief was polychromed again in 1990. The early-17th century merchant house Grote Oost 7 also has a richly manicured pulpit with acanthus tendrils and birds and putti in between. Of the preserved stepped gables, most have been (substantially) restored. The double stepped gable Oude Doelenkade 17-19 is dated '1616'. During a restoration in 1962, a similar façade was reconstructed at the adjacent building (no. 21). The richest stepped gables have sandstone blocks in the stairs, as can be seen at Breed 32 (restored 1940), Grote Noord 40 and Ramen 11, or checkered relief arches, such as at Grote Oost 49 and Nieuwe Noord 45 (restored 1953). Only sandstone cover plates and a top pilaster have the stepped gables of Duinsteeg 15, Gerritsland 53 (circa 1619), Grote Oost 73 and Kuil 32 (restored 1967). From shortly after the middle of the 17th century, the stepped gables of Kruisstraat 15 (semicircular crowning) and Kerkplein 31 (segmental pediment) date from.
The façade of several 17th-century buildings was later demolished, but the old layout with a high front house and insert was retained, as was the case with West 50 from 1612 (facing 'In de Frahchtwagen'), the facade of which was reconstructed in 1917. Also other houses with an old layout have a reconstructed facade, such as the Binnenluiendijk 3 (1624, restored 1951) and the houses Grote Noord 113 and Ramen 23 (1628), which have been divided into a narrow entrance. In addition, there are examples of 17th-century houses without a gable top and with an 18th-century facade, such as Gedempte Appelhaven 7 ('Genoa' stone house), Rode Steen 2 ('d'd'Yserman' stone house, Louis XIV style doorway) and Sun 1 (facing wall 'Van Godt comt al', 1613). Other noteworthy buildings with a 17th-century core are Grote Oost 58 with timber frame and spiral staircase (shop front 1878), Grote Noord 3, Grote Oost 64-66 and 113-115, Italian Zeedijk 106 (with spiral staircase) and Ramen 25 (facing brick '1611 '). The gabled houses Bierkade 10 (1936) and 13 (1971 formerly dated '1591'), as well as the shallow building Schoolsteeg 7 (1937-1938), have been radically restored. The 17th-century façade with black cow from Veermanskade 15 recalls that this is, according to tradition, the birthplace of skipper Willem IJsbrandsz Bontekoe.
In the second half of the 17th century fewer new houses were built. A classicist elevated neck façade from 1660 has Kerkstraat 1. This façade decorated with festoons and oeil-de-boeuf frames is articulated by doric corner pilasters and higher-standing ionic center pillars carrying a pediment. A façade with festoons and colossal pilasters - but without an old façade - also has Grote Noord 9 (circa 1660). The transition from the neck façade to the façade is clearly visible at the houses Veermanskade 5 (circa 1670, top façade 1968) with doric pilasters, Grote Oost 38 (1698) with sandstone wings, Nieuwstraat 13 (1693) with ornamental clusters on the swollen sides, and Grote Noord 1 (1698).
18th century houses
The Lodewijk styles based on French architecture were mainly used by wealthy citizens who provided their existing houses with a new façade and renewed the interior. For three existing buildings, Nanning van Foreest had the extremely rich sandstone façade of Grote Oost 43 built in Louis XIV style in 1724. The pronkrisaliet is equipped with a balcony and an attachment with seated statues of Amor and Fides, and above the blocked corner pilasters are images of Minerva and Mars. The design is attributed to Jan Peter van Baurscheidt, who in that t
