The Sharon Town Green, located within a local historic district, follow Main Street (Route 41) in Sharon from Herrick Road south of the civic and commercial center of town to Gay Street and the Old Burying Ground at the north end of the center, a distance of 1.5 miles and most of it 12 rods wide as it was originally laid out. The town maintains the green and adjacent parcels .6 and .3 miles to the south and .3 to the north. The area of the green south of the intersection at Route 4 is rural and open; trees do line both sides of the road. Here Main Street runs through the green just west of the center of its width. Many adjacent properties have stone walls to mark boundaries between the green and large rural estates. The green begins to narrow approaching Herrick Road.

The buildings around the green provide closure for the open space. Those along lower Main Street are situated closer together and closer to the highway and as a result provide a definite wall. Those along Upper Main Street are on larger lots and are set back further from the street at fairly random distances. As a result, there is more variety in the streetscape. The Congregational Church is on the west side of Main Street just south of the southern tip. It is the third Congregational Church constructed since Sharon was incorporated.

On the green at the southeast intersection with Route 4 is a high-profile Sharon landmark, a forty-feet tall brick clock tower built in 1885 as a memorial to Emily Butler Ogden Wheeler by her daughters Laura and Emily Wheeler. Across from the clock tower built at the southwest corner of the intersection and adjacent to the Green is a vacant lot which formerly was the site of the Sharon Inn. The town now owns the vacant lot and plans to use it as a War Memorial Park.

North of Route 4, in the civic and community center of the town, Main Street splits and runs along both sides of the green. The names identifying each side, Upper Main Street and Lower Main Street, reflect the slight incline in the terrain from west to east. Lower Main Street is the primary thoroughfare; Upper Main Street is an access street for the homes and buildings on the east side of the street. This section of the green in the town center has a quiet, well-kept, park-like appearance with trees and shrubs, benches, and memorials.

Rustic footbridges at the lower ends of three footpaths connecting the Upper and Lower Main Streets at regular intervals add to the park-like appearance. The footbridges once crossed a small stream running through the green. Apparently little more than a drainage ditch, the stream now seems to be accommodated by underground tiles laid out when Route 41 was improved.

Two of the memorials on the green are small granite boulders with plaques, one commemorating the site of the second Sharon Church (near the southern tip) and the other commemorating veterans of World War Two.

West Main Street (an extension of Route 361 West) crosses the green from east to west near the middle. At the end of this street, at Upper Main Street, is a 19th century molded concrete watering trough for horses which is now used as a container for seasonal plants and flowers.

At the north end of the green, a small triangle of land has been isolated by a c. 1970 alteration to Route 41 which caused the road to cut diagonally through the green at this end. On it stands a monument, deteriorating, molded concrete memorial to Civil War veterans. This monument replaced a Civil War Cannon stolen from the green earlier this century. The top of the monument is molded in the shape of the stolen cannon.