The Bolton Center Green is triangular in shape and about .38 acres in the relatively quiet old town center. The west and northeast sides are bordered by the Bolton Center Road which was the Stage Coach Route - the old Hartford to Norwich Turnpike and bordered by Hebron Road on the southeast and third side of the triangle.

The green itself is an open, well-kept lawn defined by the roads and mature oak, maple and spruce trees rather than by a continuous street edge. The properties of the oldest existing buildings - the former tavern and Bolton General Store - are bordered by part of the common ground, with more mature maples and oaks, but separated from the formal green by the Bolton Centre Road.

Following tradition, the most prominent building of those bordering the green is the Bolton Congregational Church, a simple Greek Revival structure built in 1818 with a truncated box-spire. Its main doors face obliquely onto the green. Most of the civic and religious activities took place on the northern end of the green centered around the Church, the Community Hall, now the Town Hall, and originally the first meeting house which was sited on the green west of the church. No traces of its structure remain.

On the green to the south a clipped yew hedge forms a crescent backdrop to two war memorials. Both bronze plaques are set in rough boulders, commemorating World War I and World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined. They are placed on either side of a flagpole. There is a neat bed of annuals at the base of the flagpole and two moveable benches. Some new maples and a balsam fir tree have been planted recently behind the yew hedge. A history board is located on the north corner of the green with a young birch planted beside it.

A residence facing the green on the east side dates from the 1840s, and a new ranch house has been built on the former site of an 1870s house which was destroyed by fire. The considerable vehicular traffic, though mostly cars and not heavy vehicles, is intrusive, and the perimeter car parking around the green is unattractive.

Bolton Center Green remains intact as an open space maintained for public use and town commemorative functions. The green itself has not changed since 1856 though private/public boundaries are not easily discernable. The change of use of the two oldest buildings on Bolton Center Road from commercial to residential and the removal of the first burial ground from its location beside the original Church have had a significant effect on the character of the green. The 1950s addition to the Town Hall is noticeable in its lack of sympathy for the original building.