Vanstone

Vanstone, also known as St Luke's Vicarage, is a villa located on College Road in Cheltenham, built around 1840 to 1860. The building is constructed of stucco over brick and features a hipped slate roof with two gault brick stacks that have cornices. It has a double depth plan with a central hallway.

The exterior is two storeys high and has three first-floor windows. Notable stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication on the ground floor, a first-floor band, and tooled architraves around the first-floor windows, which have sills. The windows are 1/1 sashes, with those on the first floor featuring cambered heads. The central entrance consists of four fielded-panel double doors with side-lights, topped by a cambered overlight set in a tooled surround with an acanthus keystone. The building has wide eaves. The right return showcases full-height and ground-floor canted bays, which have similar fenestration and a cornice on the ground-floor bay.

The interior is reputed to retain original plasterwork, although it has not been inspected. A notable feature is the balcony over the bay window on the right return, which has an open-scroll motif. Vanstone has served as the vicarage for the Church of St Luke on St Luke's Road since around 1970, and it forms a group with that church.