The Colebrook Green is located in Colebrook Center, a hilly rural residential community serving as the center for the entire town of Colebrook. It is set off from adjacent properties by Smith Hill Road on the east; Thompson Road on the south; and Route 183 (Colebrook Road) on the west, thus isolating the green and the perfectly proportioned church sited near the southern edge. The green is slightly elevated above the store and the Inn and the adjacent dwellings on Smith Hill and Colebrook Roads. It is framed by a white rail fence that is set several feet in from the edge of the green above the steepest incline from the roads. Trees along Smith Hill Road are mature and mostly set outside the fence but on the green. Trees along Colebrook Road are very young and set within the fence. A flagpole is situated near the center. At the front (north end) of the green and outside the fence is a white sign post for the notification of town events. To the south of it inside the fence is a large hydrangea bush.

Near the church, on the west side, is an electrified lantern on a wooden post, a decorative iron hitching post, and a sign identifying the church. Flood lights mounted on the rail fence illuminate the front of the church at night. Parking is provided along Thompson Road behind the church and near Colebrook Road beside the church. Neither parking area is visible from the green. A slate walkway cuts diagonally across the southeast corner of the green connecting the steps of the church with steps leading down to Smith Hill Road to the rail fence.

The green with the perfectly proportioned Green Revival church (said to be copied from a Charles Bulfich design) is the centerpiece of an isolated rural village that flourished during the first half of the 19th century. All the buildings surrounding the green were built prior to the mid-19th century. The earliest dwellings were built in the late-18th century by the founding family, the Rockwells. They are also responsible for the Colebrook Store, a sophisticated Federal-style commercial structure with a colonnaded front located at the lower end of the present green on Colebrook Road. It has functioned as a store since 1812. The Rockwell family was also responsible for the Colebrook Inn across the road from the store. The Inn is now the location of the Colebrook Historical Society and the town offices.