Mathias Close Cardiff / Caerdydd, Cardiff

23 addresses across 2 postcodes (CF23), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5802779.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £271,950 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 6).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band F; Band D in Cardiff costs £2,013 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cathays, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 220 m away, and Roath Park (38 hectares) is about 720 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 14 to 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Roath House Surgery, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 57% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 143 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£271,950£271,950£271,950
20232£230,000£230,000£230,000
20221£305,000£305,000£305,000
20211£225,750£225,750£225,750
20192£216,250£190,000£242,500
20182£187,750£180,000£195,500
20171£235,000£235,000£235,000
20161£218,500£218,500£218,500
20151£155,600£155,600£155,600
20141£166,000£166,000£166,000
20131£160,000£160,000£160,000
20111£162,000£162,000£162,000
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 May 20251 CF23 9BETerraced£271,950
16 Jun 20236 CF23 9BETerraced£230,000
10 Feb 20234 CF23 9BETerraced£230,000
16 Sep 202221 CF23 9BETerraced£305,000
14 Oct 202115 CF23 9BETerraced£225,750
22 Nov 201922 CF23 9BETerraced£242,500
4 Feb 20191 CF23 9BETerraced£190,000
14 Dec 201815 CF23 9BETerraced£195,500
12 Jan 201814 CF23 9BETerraced£180,000
6 Oct 201722 CF23 9BETerraced£235,000
13 Jul 201621 CF23 9BETerraced£218,500
9 Jul 201515 CF23 9BETerraced£155,600
23 May 20141 CF23 9BETerraced£166,000
3 Jun 20136 CF23 9BETerraced£160,000
17 Nov 20111 CF23 9BETerraced£162,000
25 Jan 200811 CF23 9BETerraced£147,000
14 Nov 200720 CF23 9BESemi-detached£156,000
26 Apr 20076 CF23 9BETerraced£149,950
26 May 20069 CF23 9BESemi-detached£142,000
18 May 200610 CF23 9BESemi-detached£175,000
31 Mar 20067 CF23 9BETerraced£127,500
16 Jul 200414 CF23 9BETerraced£139,950
26 Apr 200420 CF23 9BESemi-detached£127,500
19 Dec 20036 CF23 9BETerraced£115,000
3 Oct 20031 CF23 9BETerraced£120,000
19 Sep 200313 CF23 9BESemi-detached£145,000
8 Nov 200214 CF23 9BETerraced£95,000
8 Jun 20012 CF23 9BESemi-detached£91,500
26 Mar 200110 CF23 9BESemi-detached£90,000
23 Mar 20011 CF23 9BETerraced£71,000
17 Jul 20006 CF23 9BETerraced£70,000
12 Nov 199813 CF23 9BESemi-detached£70,000
9 Oct 19989 CF23 9BESemi-detached£59,950
18 Sep 19981 CF23 9BETerraced£58,000
3 Oct 19974 CF23 9BETerraced£52,950
24 Sep 19977 CF23 9BETerraced£55,000
13 Jun 199714 CF23 9BETerraced£49,000
31 Jan 19979 CF23 9BESemi-detached£53,650
18 Dec 199620 CF23 9BESemi-detached£51,950
4 Dec 199611 CF23 9BETerraced£50,500
25 Mar 19966 CF23 9BETerraced£52,950
24 Feb 199517 CF23 9BETerraced£56,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 57 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (10); House, mid-terrace (8). Built: 1991-1995 (9); 1983-1990 (5); 1996-2002 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (6); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cardiff in 2026-27: Band D £2,013 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,342£1,566£1,789£2,013£2,461£2,908£3,355£4,026£4,697

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (32% of about 920 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Welsh Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

None of the 42 address points in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water on Natural Resources Wales's map. Outside those areas the chance is under 0.1% (1 in 1,000) a year.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 23 addresses are between 14 m and 16 m above sea level (15 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CF23 9BE100%100%100%0%
CF23 9BZ100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsCathays 934,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cardiff Queen Street 2.0 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Heath Low Level 48,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Colchester Avenue Penylan80 m
Bus or coach stationCardiff Bus Interchange Bay 14 Cardiff Bus Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Ferry terminalCardiff Castle Waterbus Stop2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksCyncoed Campus Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL17.4 km (11 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roath House Surgery670 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Central Pharmacy920 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery120 m
HospitalBft Southmead University Hospital Of Wales2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationRoath Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM470 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,830 m²220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Roath Park 38 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,460 m²240 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Peters Rugby Football Club 3.8 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Colchester Avenue Allotments 6.1 ha260 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 56 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Pen y lan Roman Site, a scheduled monument, 400 m (0.2 miles) north-west. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pen y lan Roman SiteScheduled monument400 m (0.2 miles) north-west
Waterloo Gardens, Roath Mill Gardens and Roath Brook GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II550 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Church of St MargaretListed building, Grade I660 m (0.4 miles) south
St Andrews United Reformed ChurchListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) west
Roath ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Well WoodWood950 m (0.6 miles) north
Queen WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Coed EdeyrnWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Nant Pant-BachValley1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
The LakeLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Orchard LedgesWetland4.1 km (2.6 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)13.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5950
Under 551823

5 of the street's 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Cardiff: see them on the Cardiff page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Howardian Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11310 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Marlborough Primary English mediumPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern Welsh mediumSecondary11–19720 m (0.4 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Stacey Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Llanedeyrn Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Roath Park Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Albany Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ysgol Y Berllan Deg Welsh mediumPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
All Saints C.I.W. Primary School Church in Wales English mediumPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Peter's RC Primary School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Albans RC Primary School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School
Baden Powell Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Penylan Fish Bar CF23 9AWTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good1 Oct 2025
Bean's To Coffee CF23 9AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Co-op CF23 9ALRetailers - other130 m5 Very good9 Oct 2026
Greedy’s Kitchen Cardiff CF23 9APMobile caterer260 m5 Very good12 Dec 2025
Playtimextra CF23 9NBSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good21 Sep 2016
Howardian Primary School CF23 9NBSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good15 Apr 2024
Mali & Seren Childminding CF23 5EBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 mExempt
Waterloo Tea (Rangers Hut) Takeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good4 Aug 2022
Mitch’s CF23 9AQMobile caterer400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good6 May 2026
Waterloo Store CF23 5AARetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory17 Mar 2026
Waterloo Gardens Teahouse CF23 5AAOther catering premises470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Sainsbury's CF23 9ANRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2026
DD's Dipped Desserts CF23 9XXMobile caterer500 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

143 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences48
Shoplifting20
Public order18
Vehicle crime16
Criminal damage and arson12
Anti-social behaviour8
Burglary6
Other theft5
Possession of weapons5
Other crime2
Robbery2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Colchester Court (48); On or near Doe Close (24); On or near Hampton Court Road (15); On or near Colchester Avenue (13); On or near Woosnam Close (12).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 301 residents in 147 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetWales
Median age4243
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over17%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)57%66%
Owned outright32%38%
Shared ownershipunder 1%under 1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented17%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work60%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)20%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%26%
Travel to work by car or van39%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus5%3%
On foot or by bicycle13%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%32%
No qualifications16%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)85%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CF23 9BE: 22 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • CF23 9BZ: 1 address of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Foster Drive · Sharpe Close · Firstbrook Close · Hammond Way · Hugon Close · Earls Court Place · Baber Close · Howardian Close · Woosnam Close · Sinclair Drive · Ravens Court Close · Colchester Court

All the streets in CF23 and across Cardiff.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.