The two-story Elizabethan Revival style Peck School is designed with a T-shaped plan and features a stairway to access the main entrance on the second story.

[2] The 1+1⁄2-story Barrington Town Hall was designed and constructed between 1887 and 1888 by Stone, Carpenter & Willson of Providence, Rhode Island with an appropriation of $15,000.

[4] Constructed on the north-south axis of a ridge Prince's Hill, the town hall's design was self-described as medieval by the architects.

Morgan notes that "[in the Town Hall,] institutional functions are given something of a domestic architectural character, for the building suggests an expansive house in a half-timbered manorial style."

The southern tower is topped by a copper weather vane with an elaborate three-mast ship.

A secondary entrance on the western facade accesses the northern section of the building, previously a library.

The southern section of the building was previously a high school with separate entrances for boys and girls.

The two-story Elizabethan Revival school is made of red Barrington brick with Indiana limestone trim and topped with a gable roof.

Designed with a T-shaped plan, the main entrance at the top of the "T" is accessed on a second-story terrace reached via a large double stairway.

According to Morgan, "[a]t a town meeting on January 18, 1728–29, a committee of Timothy Wadsworth, Lieutenant Peck, Zachariah Bicknell, and James Smith was empowered to purchase land on Prince's Hill from Ebenezer Allen to lay out a burying ground for the recently erected Congregational Church..."[2] The earliest stones are located in the narrow northern end of the cemetery and date to 1728.

From 1881, the development of the land was regulated by the Barrington Rural Improvement Society, and the historic district serves as evidence of its planning.

Morgan notes that a train station just south of Prince's Hill influenced the decision for the construction of civic buildings.