The village hall on Brockholes Lane was built in 1837 and is a Grade II listed building.

[2] Further Grade II structures are the Gothic Revival St George's Church of England parish church, built in 1861,[3] the 17th- or early 18th-century Bank End farmhouse and barn on Bank End Knoll at the south-east of the village,[4][5] and a late 18th- to early 19th-century single-span bridge over the River Holme on Smithy Place Lane.

Brockholes contains two public houses, The Rock Inn and the Travellers Rest and a range of village shops.

A number of larger businesses were established in the industrial units of the old Rock Mill site, including a tyre fitting and repair company, an electrical wholesalers, a steel fabrication company, and a car registration plate business.

the local petrol station was bought out by a national chain and refurbished to include a mini supermarket.