This is a typical Dutch courtyard with houses around. It was built in 1605 as a place where  catholic woman, unmarried or widowed, could live for free when they could not support themselves. The complex was renovated once in 1960, which included the transformation of the chapel into an extra house. In addition each house was made bigger, by combining two smaller houses into one. This left the courtyard with a total of ten houses. Nowadays the houses are still used by elderly singles.

More types of courtyards can be found in Delft and in other old cities in the Netherlands. Sometimes the residents for whom the courtyards were originally built are still living there, in in other cases other types of households live there, such as families.

Brain Teaser
Courtyards are an inward focussed typology. What kind of consequences does that have for its surroundings?

Sources
Het Klaeuwshofje in Delft. (n.d.). https://repository.tudelft.nl/view/MMP/uuid:f35a563e-dacc-47f2-9fbb-9b92909b5fc7

Klaeuwshofje | Kerkelijke Stichting Stalpaert van der Wiele. (n.d.). https://www.stalpaertdelft.nl/klaeuwshofje/