Most of the houses are comparatively large and well-built semi-detached pairs with ample front and rear gardens designed in the Edwardian arts and crafts style; they are laid out at a density of around seven households per acre.

Cadbury also built social and community facilities including an Anglican parish church, Friends Meeting House, technical college and junior and infant schools.

The village is centred on an attractive green and includes recreational gardens and playing fields that incorporate natural landscape such as Camp Wood and the Bourn Brook.

The designated area is generally regarded as an excellent example of a late 19th century pioneer garden suburb.

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It features a tall gable above a Romanesque doorway flanked by an octagonal staircase turret.

 The interior contains a splendid bust of the Quaker George Cadbury.

Saint Francis' Church on Linden Road was built in red-brick in the Romanesque style in 1905 to a design by William Alexander Harvey; it consists of a chancel, nave and baptistery.

There is a tympanum by William Bloye above the north door that portrays Saint Francis of Assisi feeding birds.

A second tympanum carved by John Poole above the south door depicts the saint as a builder of churches.

The interior contains a lectern by Francis Ames in the form of a an eagle perched on a globe; the organ was formerly installed at the girl's dining room in the Cadbury chocolate factory.

The circular Rest House on Bournville Village Green was modelled on the Yarn Market (1609) at Dunster in Somerset.

It was built by Cadbury employees to commemorate the 25th wedding anniversary of George and Elizabeth Cadbury in 1913.

An inscription reads: "in gratitude for their employer's unceasing interest in their welfare".

It consists of 48 bells housed in a copper dome. Their clappers are connected by wires to the keys and pedals of a clavier; the bells themselves remain motionless.

The carillon is played regularly for one hour at 12 noon and 3 pm on Saturdays.