In the city center there are many deep houses with a stepped gable, usually no older than the end of the 16th century. The houses with plastered facades, such as Breedstraat 20, 22-24 and Hoogesteeg 1 (facing bricks) often have an older (17th-century) core. This is also the case with the later wave house Oosterhaven 31, whose façades show a clock and allegories on Faith and Hope.
The oldest preserved stepped gable Oosterhaven 39 is dated '1591' with date anchors. The richest stepped gable is that from 1613 of Nieuwstraat 26, with corner or side blocks and checkered arches (restored 1953). Empire and mannerism is also the entrance gate transferred to this house with above it the coat of arms and the name of the craft of the Vier Noorder Koggen (probably from the old Koggehuis demolished in 1797). Around 1640, the houses of Vooreiland 10-12, which were decorated with natural stone bacon belts, were built. They are known as 'Faith, Hope and Love' (restored 1977, D. Fledderus) because of the paving stones. Other examples of two-storey houses with stepped gables from the first half of the 17th century are Oosterhaven 22, 26 and 27, Nieuwstraat 40 (lace blocks), Vooreiland 15 (restored 1981) and the sober stepped gables Westerhaven 10-14. Examples of deep single-layer buildings with a stepped gable are Achterom 32, 34, Bagijnhof 44, Nieuwstraat 58 and 65. The end of the flowering period of Medemblik is symbolized by the late-modernist building Oosterhaven 44, which is also used as a warehouse for the W.I.C. did service. The cut upright of the shoulder façade is dated '1656'. Possibly from around 1630, the shoulder façade of the one-storey building Tuinstraat 24 dates back to corner pillars with helical pinnacles.
In the 18th century (re) built only a few deep houses. In 1728, for example, it was commissioned by mayor, timber merchant and owner Thames Veen in 1728 to create a beautiful new facade in Louis XIV style with asymmetric pronkrisaliet, oeil-de-boeuf windows and a plastered gable with bell-shaped middle section ( restored 1991, PW Vlaming). Bagijnhof 19 and Westerhaven 1 have eighteenth-century bell gables; the Belfry of Nieuwstraat 68 (1783) exhibits Louis XV details (crest and corner designs). Back 21 is an example of an 18th-century single-storey building with workshop, possibly a mill-makers workshop.
From 1866, the plastered two-story middle-class house Vooreiland 2 dates with balcony and rich eclectic forms. Comparable window joints with this housing has the forem. mayor's residence Oosterhaven 30 (circa 1865, core of the 17th century). Not plastered but with eclectic eyebrows is the mansion Nieuwstraat 70 (circa 1870). Eclectic elements also show the deep buildings Nieuwstraat 45 (circa 1880) and Oosterhaven 9 (circa 1890), which are equipped with storefronts. The retail premises Nieuwstraat 6 (circa 1915) and the adjoining narrower shop Nieuwstraat 8 (circa 1910) with Art Nouveau details are in use together as Bakery Museum. From the 1920s, the double house Vooreiland 13-14 (1921) with expressionist details, the popular housing complex Koningshof 1-11 (circa 1925) and the wooden servant house Overtoom 21 built for the overseer of the Zuiderzee works in the district (1927-'28 ).
