The buildings mainly consist of detached deep houses. The in-between drip strip or alley was later often built on. Behind the façades, older caps, beam layers or wooden skeletons are often hidden. For example, in Middendam 3 the façade has been renewed (circa 1880), but a presumed 17th-century timber frame has been preserved internally.
The secret annex contains an early-15th-century cachot, which was possibly part of the old town hall. The later plastered late medieval house Gooischekaai 10 has a basement and a higher entrance with stairs. The wood frame is equipped with gothic key pieces and renaissance goosenecks (16th century). The house In de Bonten Os (Noordeinde 26), built by Cornelis Melisz in 1611, also has a wooden frame with late gothic key pieces. The lower door with carved door calf belongs to a restoration in 1923 (gable 1950, restoration 2001). Siermetselwerk contains the, in '1592' dated, in and out swivel facade with climbing pilasters and plaiting fronds of Haven 1. With similar facades from about 1600 Weezenland 17 and Kerkstraat 54 (front probably 1773). With no climbing pilasters, the facades of Kerkstraat 15 and Weezenland 7. The latter building has a wooden skeleton with billowed cores and key pieces.
A rich Mannerist stepped gable with top pilaster, sandstone cover plates and corner blocks has Middendam 6 (front modern). This is dated 1614 (cartouche) and provided with lion masks on both sides of the frieze. The house Kerkstraat 32, which was probably built for Jan Cornelis Beringh in 1620, also has a rich Mannerist stepped gable (facade circa 1760). The house This is Uitendam (Noordeinde 10) probably came about around 1630 for Jan Dirksz Mars from Uitdam. A facing brick, however, reports the year 1660. The Secret Annex dates back to the 18th century. Other examples of stepped gables with a top pilaster can be found in the houses built around 1630 Noordeinde 17 and In de Hoop (Fluwelen Burgwal 13), and at Kerkstraat 41 (circa 1660). Easier 17th-century stepped gables have Weezenland 18 (with decorative masonry), Fluwelen Burgwal 7 (before 1639) and the building that was later converted into warehouse Fluwelen Burgwal 12. At the two-façade Noordeinde 100 (1651), the stepped gables were later turned into spout gables. From the third quarter of the seventeenth century, the front facades of Zarken 14, Kerkstraat 9 and Kerkstraat 45 are crowned with a pediment. The classicistic neck facades with segment-shaped fronton are somewhat younger, such as Noordeinde 11 (1681) and Noordeinde 43 (1697). In 1888, in the latter building, G. Sistermans established the 'De Posthoorn' guest house (outbuilding Noordeinde 45 circa 1890).
The sturdy mansion De Bruijnvis (Noordeinde 21) has a stone facade in Louis XIV style with corner pilasters, pronkrisalite and a richly carved cornice with vases and crest (with an image porpoise). This house was created in 1741 by the contraction of two existing two-storey buildings and the addition of a false floor or 'liar'. The barrels in the cornice refer to building owner and soap supplier Arent Claesz Bruijn (soap factory 'Bruijn en Visscher'). From 1898 to 1968, sisters ursulinen lived in the building and in 1985 it was converted into apartments. The interior still contains stucco in Louis XIV style. At Noordeinde 24 around 1760 two existing buildings were merged behind a façade with pronkrisalite. Noteworthy is the pivoted out front foot. Examples of simpler eighteenth-century transverse single-layer buildings are Zarken 12, with dormer window in Louis XV shapes, and Noordeinde 39 with ionic entrance girth (circa 1780). In the late 18th century, the mansions Noordeinde 19 and Noordeinde 50, which were designed with a framed entrance, were given a bell-gable in the 18th century. In Louis XIV style are those of Noordeinde 15 (with pilasters) and Kerkstraat 47, both from about 1740. A Louis XV bell façade with crest and corner fences has Noordeinde 18. Easier neck facades can be found at Kerkstraat 35 and the house Het Lanswelvaare (Kerkstraat 52), where a plaque shows a representation of boats (1763). Sober 18th-century gables, for example, have Kerkstraat 4 and Zuideinde 16.
A façade dating from around 1880 has the notorious house Haven 8, which is in the core, accessible via a high pavement. Sober is the broad double building Noordeinde 35-37 (circa 1890). Many deep single-storey buildings have 19th-century spout façades, such as Kerkstraat 26, Zuideinde 35 and Noordeinde 71 (core circa 1650); the latter has a door in Louis XIV style and a plaque with a biblical representation. In neo-Renaissance forms are the stepped gable of Noordeinde 3 (circa 1890) and the spout facade of Nieuwe Zijds Burgwal 48 (circa 1890). Sometimes one-storey houses were given more status with the appearance of false gables with horizontal frames, as with Zarken 16 (circa 1880),
