The Branford Green, the focal point of the town center, forms a large triangle with longest side (along Main Street) having a slightly convex curve. It is divided into five irregular shapes by three roads cutting through it: Blackstone Avenue, Taintor Drive and Town Hall Drive. Five buildings are located on it including Trinity Episcopal Church (1853); Branford Town Hall (1860); The First Congregational Church (1842); the First Baptist Church (1840) and The Academy (1820), the oldest structure on the Green.

The smallest segment (.1 acre) is a triangle at west end, formed by Main Street, South Main Street, and Eades Street.

The Baptist Church is sited on the next segment to the east, a blunted triangular shape (1.9 acres) bounded by Eades Street, South Main Street, Main Street and Blackstone Avenue.

The central third segment is also roughly triangular in shape and is bounded by Blackstone Avenue, Town Hall Avenue, Taintor Avenue, and South Main Street. The Branford Congregational Church is located there.

To the southeast is the largest segment, somewhat trapezoidal in shape and bounded by Town Hall Avenue, Montowese Street, South Main Street, and Taintor Avenue. Three buildings, the Town Hall, Trinity Episcopal Church, and the old Academy, and several monuments are located on this parcel.

The last segment to the northeast is a rough triangle (1.6 acres) of mostly open space with a landscaped circular garden at the northeast corner and a large flagpole with a monument set into a landscaped circle located near the center of the plot. It is bounded by Main Street, Montowese Street, Town Hall Drive.

The large expanse of the green with the five buildings situated on it and the roads running through it restrict the ability to see it all at any one time. It is generally a flat plane sloping up slightly from Main Street south to the center (Town Hall Avenue) and then dropping with a steeper slope to South Main Street. Directly behind the Town Hall, a convex depression is formed allowing the basement floor to be exposed and allowing the rear of the building to be three stories. Several noticeable rock outcroppings in this area add further interest to this rolling terrain.

The Green is substantially planted with large evergreen and deciduous trees: various pine species (mostly white pine), Canadian hemlock, Norway and Blue Spruce, arbor-vitae, juniper trees, maples (Norway species, sugar, silver and red), ash, linden, beech, sweet gum, goldenrain tree, honey locust, elm, sycamore, and oaks (pin, red, white, black, chestnut). There are also some smaller flowering trees and an evergreen planted around building foundations. A recently planted herbaceous circular garden is located in the northeast corner, and annuals and evergreen shrubs are planted around the centered flagpole/monument in the open space area.

Situated on the green are four monuments. A granite memorial to the veterans of World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam is located at the base of the large flagpole in the center of the open space portion of the green. A cut stone obelisk commemorating the Civil War (1885) is located between Town Hall and Congregational Church. The World War I monument is a simple stone semi-circular tall classical screen-type wall set behind a paved circle. It is located directly behind the Town Hall and is the largest monument on the green.

A square granite block monument, located in front of the Academy at the southeast corner of the Green, was erected in 1900 by the Colonial Dames of America and commemorates the founding of Yale University by marking the site of the Reverend Samuel Russell house where the ten ministers met.

Directional paths allowing for circulation of the green vary. A wide path with brick-type concrete pavers leads directly to the Town Hall from the Main Street streetscape. There is a semi-circular brick walk leading to the Old Academy entrance from Montowese Street and South Main Street. Other directional paths are asphalt with no regular pattern, crossing the various Green segments where main pedestrian routes are needed.

Along Main Street to the north, the newly designed sidewalk with brick-type concrete pavers is set in from the edge of the Green forming a pleasant streetscape with a design integrated lighting, benches, rubbish containers and other amenities. A green belt with street trees is formed between the sidewalk and the street. At street corners and pedestrian crossways, the sidewalk necks out into the street emphasizing pedestrian entrances to the Green.

There is a playground area, with some pre-school play equipment and surrounded by a four-foot high chain link fence, associated with the nursery school located at the rear of the Congregational Church Parish House.

Because of the many buildings situated on the green, a good portion of it is given over to parking. It is provided around perimeter of Green, in parking lots, beside or behind intersecting streets on the green.

Buildings around the green date form the 19th and 20th centuries. Opposite the green along Main Street are commercial one and two-story buildings that are situated closely together not too far back from the street, thereby providing a definite boundary for the green. Montowese Street is comprised primarily of 19th-century single family residences of similar scale spaced evenly apart so they too provide a consistent street front for the green. Many of these buildings have been converted to commercial use but are well preserved. Along South Main Street are 19th and early-20th century single family houses of a larger scale, some of which have been converted to offices. At the corner of Main and South Main Streets is a large, three story contemporary bank building. Across Main Street is the public library, an impressive stone building in the Beaux Art tradition sited back from the street.