Vanstone is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1972. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Vanstone
- WRENN ID
- other-outpost-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1972
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Vanstone, 38, College Road, GL53 7HX
- OS grid reference
- SO 951 217
- Coordinates
- 51.89449, -2.07223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Vanstone receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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