The North Branford Green is triangular-shaped, measuring approximately 360 feet along Foxon Road (Route 80), 200 feet along Chapel Street, and 380 feet along Church Street. Streets forming the boundaries are two lanes wide; one is a state highway and two are town roads. Parking is provided by three parking lots across from the green on Church Street, Chapel Street and Foxon Road in front of North Branford Hall.

The green is generally flat, rising to a slight mound at the Civil War Monument. Shade is provided primarily by the older trees on the site. The new plants are primarily flowering trees and shrubs. These include thirteen Kwanzan cherry trees planted around the perimeter of the green and various evergreen shrubs (predominantly rhododendrons, leucothoe, yews, Japanese anfromedas, junipers, four Alberta spruce and six shadblows) arranged around the base of the church and monuments.

The green is dominated by the North Branford Congregational Church (1908), chapel (1887) and parish hall (1961); connecting the church and chapel) located on the green and set back from Foxon Road near Church Street. Circulation is provided by concrete paths leading from the streets to the various church complex entrances. Four war monuments are located on the green including a Civil War monument (a granite obelisk on a square quarry base); a World War II monument (a rough hewn granite boulder with bronze plaque); and two World War II memorials (a bronze plaque mounted on a cut granite stone and a bronze plaque mounted on a basalt boulder). A large memorial flagpole was erected on the green in 1919, replacing an earlier hickory pole that stood on the spot reputed to be where the Reverend Samuel Eells gathered a company of volunteers to fight the British in 1777.

West of the church is a playground defined by a chain link fence and use primarily by a day-care operation on weekdays.

The green is the focal point of the North Branford town center along Foxon Road on either side of the green. The residential streetscape to the rear of the church along Chapel and Church Streets has been interrupted by a large parking lot. Several of the houses to the north of it have been compromised by unsympathetic changes over time and are in somewhat deteriorated condition. To the east of the parking lot is a small 18th century structure and a house from the Colonial period. Across Foxon Road is a cemetery, a mid-18th century schoolhouse that once stood on the green, and an 18th century tavern covered with vinyl siding with a 20th century general store attached to it. To the east along Foxon Road is the new Town Hall and to the west is a 20th century shopping center set back from the road to allow room for parking. Thus, North Branford Town Center is a mix of the old and the new and it is not entirely harmonious. However, there is enough of the original fabric to immediately recognize the green as the historic landscape that it is.