The main college building, three storeys high and constructed in the 1960s in the CLASP system, consists of four blocks arranged within a square.

In addition, social space located in an extension off the teaching block includes a dining hall, V-bar, JCR, SCR, a Porter's Lodge and a corridor known as Vanbrugh Stalls, which takes its name from the frequent society and ticket-selling stalls that are set up there.

The building underwent major alterations in 1999, changing the shape of the east frontage, and was then renamed.

These accommodation arrangements were only for the year 2005–2006 while the old Bleachfield site to the north-west of Heslington campus was completed.

The Vanbrugh College Student Association (VSA) consists of around 40 members and is headed by the President.

The 2024 VCSA Executive Committee is: Volume was a disco-type event run by Vanbrugh VSA.

The event took place in the college bar, JCR and Vanbrugh Hall simultaneously, with each of which playing a different style of music.

[citation needed] However, as of the start of the 2016 Fresher's Week, the VSA brought back Planet V to huge success, exceeding capacity of over 500.