Traditionally, the houses in the village were executed in wood. At a later stage they often got a brick underpinned (with wooden top façade) or they were completely provided with stone walls.
The Noorderhoofdstraat 26, built in stone after the village fire of 1702 in 1704, has a late-18th century wooden bell façade in Louis XVI style with broken fronton, ornamental vase, volutes and garland. Around 1825, J. van Leyden, director of the same-named sailcloth weaving factory, had the house remodeled and dated the entrance frame and various interior components, such as two interior porches, a marble mantelpiece and a painted wallpaper of the wallpaper factory in Hoorn. Behind the house are the forem. office of the weaving mill and a wooden garden house and barn in chalet style (all second half of the 19th century). The broad stone transverse house Noorderhoofdstraat 74 (1786) has a wooden neck facade in rich Louis XV and XVI forms with pilasters and volutes. A hard stone sidewalk leads to the entrance gable with Louis XV ornaments. The largely wooden building Huize Ceres (Zuiderhoofdstraat 65, circa 1780) has a richly decorated wooden bell-wall in Louis XVI style with emblems of the merchant navy, a medallion head of Ceres and a relief representation of agriculture and trade. The front room has a richly cut ceiling (early 19th century). In the formally laid back garden is a two-layer wooden air house (summer house) with tent roof and wind vane (circa 1810). At the core of the eighteenth-century transverse wooden house Zuiderhoofdstraat 115, the plastered stone façade is provided with a corner window. The rich dormer in Louis XVI forms shows a relief representation of the paper trade in the tympanum. Embassies of the merchant navy exhibit the entry-level list of the main house in Noorderhoofdstraat 37, which was built largely in wood.
Simpler examples of wooden houses are Kerkplein 8, a hall house with internal parts from 1630 (restored 1992), and Noorderhoofdstraat 92, where an elongated wing connects with a square two-layer airhouse from 1710. Other 18th-century examples are Noorderhoofdstraat 77 (1702 ), 79, 85 and 140, and Zuiderhoofdstraat 93. Somewhat younger are Noorderhoofdstraat 45 (circa 1810) and 136.
The wooden manor house Zuiderhoofdstraat 70, built in 1851 as a manufacturer's residence, served as a mayor's residence from 1916 to 1969. This house has profiled window frames and a dormer window with pediment and round window. Examples of villas built around 1900 are Noorderhoofdstraat 65, Padlaan 12-14 and Zuiderhoofdstraat 59-61 (circa 1910). With Neo-Renaissance details, the workers' homes were Wilhelminastraat 62-68, 59-65 and 82-86 (circa 1905). The working-class homes Padlaan 6-6c (circa 1910) are slightly younger. K. Veltkamp designed the social housing Pr. Hendrikstraat 45-65 (1909) and commissioned by the Patrimonium housing association, the Patrimoniumstraat e.o. (circa 1915). The Noorderhoofdstraat 35 residential building (circa 1925) has a large display window and a built-in balcony and an eye-catching corner turret in the upstairs apartment.
