Cronkbourne Village is almost the only example in the Isle of Man of housing erected by a firm for its employees. It was built, probably between 1846 and 1850, by the Moore family for the workers in their sail-cloth mill which was situated a little higher up the river. 


The dwellings have been bought and modernised by Braddan Parish Commissioners. The forty-two houses were arranged in two parallel terraces at right angles to the river and despite varied dimensions and arrangement there were only two basic ground-floor plans consisting of two (living room and rear scullery) or three rooms. Except for numbers 8-17 the houses are two-storeyed.


Some two dozen cottages are arranged in two rows parallelling each other separated by a green area on whose axis is focussed a community hall. All of the cottages are of masonry construction cement rendered with slate roofs. Although there is some variation in the designs with a series of bungalows rising with the contour of the ground and some dormer treatment of cottages on the flat land, all buildings are in continuous terraces with a common front plane for their respective rows. The complex thus creates a self contained community around the green space even though one of the rows of cottages backs onto the green while the other fronts onto it. The majority of the cottages have consistent decoration to their rather simply articulated fenestration. 


The 'hall' is built of stone with a matching pitched slate roof rising to a bell housing in the gable over the original entrance from the village green. The hall however has been somewhat altered and is now used for non-community purposes. No interior inspections have been made.