Although it nowadays seems if Gothicism was mainly a style for religious architecture, it's just simply so that only few profane Gothic buildings have survived. Although largely a reconstruction, the town hall annex meat hall of Middelburg is one of the most important of these survivors. It represents the Brabantine variant of Gothicism, and three generations of the important Keldermans family of architects worked on it. An earlier town hall was completely replaced. Andries en Matheus Keldermans became involved in 1455, supervising the deliveries of stone as well as sculpting the decorations for the walls. In 1460 this was mostly finished. Matthijs II Keldermans added sculptures in 1495. In 1506 Antoon I and his son Rombout II Keldermans continued the work, adding the gables and the tower as well as the vaults of the meat hall. Sculptor Michiel Ywynsz. from Mechelen made 25 sculptures of counts and countesses of Zeeland and Holland. Ca. 1520 the building was completed.
The building is very similar to the town hall of Brussel (Belgium) which was finished before work in Middelburg began. The Gothic complex consists of three wings and a central tower. While the ground floor is very modest, the second floor is richly ornamented with traceries and sculptures. Corners are accentuated by gables as well as a richly decorated stair-tower. Originally the main entrance was located next to this tower, but in 1613 it was moved to the current location. The bombing on the 17th of May 1940 only left the walls and the tower standing, the rest was destroyed. It took many years to restore its former beauty. After the war a new wing in Traditionalistic style, designed by A.J. van der Steur, was built on the former location of an 18th-century extension which had not survived the bombing.