Model Cottages Penyard, Merthyr Tydfil

3 addresses across 3 postcodes (CF47), about 100 m long. USRN 25103250.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £110,000 across 2 sales.
  • 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 A; Band D in Merthyr Tydfil costs £2,594 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 86% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Merthyr Tydfil, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 235 to 280 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 3 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pontcae Medical Practice, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 760 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 22 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
20222£110,000£90,000£130,000
20181£75,000£75,000£75,000
20171£93,500£93,500£93,500
20161£58,000£58,000£58,000
20151£66,000£66,000£66,000
20141£87,000£87,000£87,000
20131£76,500£76,500£76,500
20081£104,000£104,000£104,000
20071£71,000£71,000£71,000
20052£69,625£63,000£76,250
20045£72,950£55,000£82,950
20032£52,475£45,000£59,950
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Oct 20231 CF47 0HSTerraced£105,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Sep 20226 CF47 0HSTerraced£90,000
11 Aug 20223 CF47 0HSTerraced£130,000
25 May 20187 CF47 0HSTerraced£75,000
17 Feb 20175 CF47 0HSTerraced£93,500
3 Feb 20161 CF47 0HSTerraced£58,000
12 Aug 20157 CF47 0HSTerraced£66,000
28 Nov 201411 CF47 0HSTerraced£87,000
14 Jun 20139 CF47 0HSTerraced£76,500
9 May 20085 CF47 0HSTerraced£104,000
24 Aug 20077 CF47 0HSTerraced£71,000
23 Sep 20056 CF47 0HSTerraced£63,000
12 Jul 20053 CF47 0HSTerraced£76,250
6 Dec 20046 CF47 0HSTerraced£55,000
26 Nov 20049 CF47 0HSTerraced£72,950
16 Nov 20045 CF47 0HSTerraced£82,950
20 Aug 20041 CF47 0HSTerraced£68,000
15 Apr 200411 CF47 0HSTerraced£82,950
17 Oct 20039 CF47 0HSTerraced£45,000
3 Oct 20035 CF47 0HSTerraced£59,950
30 Jan 20026 CF47 0HSTerraced£27,000
7 Sep 20018 CF47 0HSTerraced£37,000
15 Mar 20015 CF47 0HSTerraced£42,000
18 Sep 20001 CF47 0HSTerraced£36,000
28 Apr 20009 CF47 0HSTerraced£34,000
12 Nov 19993 CF47 0HSTerraced£36,000
3 Jan 199710 CF47 0HSTerraced£27,000
2 Aug 19961 CF47 0HSTerraced£33,500
8 Dec 19956 CF47 0HSTerraced£22,000

Energy performance certificates

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Merthyr Tydfil in 2026-27: Band D £2,594 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,729£2,017£2,305£2,594£3,170£3,746£4,323£5,187£6,052

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (26% of about 700 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 30 September 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 66 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 3 addresses are between 235 m and 280 m above sea level (251 m on average); the ground rises about 45 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
CF47 0HQ100%100%100%0%
CF47 0HS100%100%100%0%
CF47 0TJ86%86%86%14%

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 stationsMerthyr Tydfil 413,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Pentre-Bach 30,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Troed-Y-Rhiw 41,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fothergill Street Penyard60 m
Bus or coach stationMerthyr Bus Station 14 Merthyr Tydfil1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points15 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations640 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL39.5 km (25 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pontcae Medical Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beacons Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Church Street Dental Practice790 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalPrince Charles Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationMerthyr Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesCashpoint® 69 High Street Lloyds Bank900 m (0.6 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9.5 ha210 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²140 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.8 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha710 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Town Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 830 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 53 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Town HallListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Iron Canal Bridge from RhydycarScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Ynys Fach Iron FurnacesScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Cyfarthfa CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Deserted Iron Mining Village, Ffos-y-franScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cwm BlacsValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Castle WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Garden WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Pwll GlasLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) west
Pen-y-garn WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Morlais HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) north

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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)7.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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 5920
Under 5513

2 of the street's 3 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 Merthyr Tydfil: see them on the Merthyr Tydfil 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
Cyfarthfa High School English mediumSecondary11–16350 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Ysgol Santes Tudful Welsh mediumPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic School Roman Catholic English mediumAll-through3–16650 m (0.4 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Gwaunfarren Primary English mediumPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Twynyrodyn Community School English mediumPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Gellifaelog Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Caedraw Primary English mediumPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Cyfarthfa Park Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Goetre Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Dowlais Primary School English mediumPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Pen-Y-Dre High School English mediumSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Queen Bee and B CF47 0HTHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m4 Good29 Jan 2024
Giddy Kiddys CF47 0ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m4 Good18 Nov 2025
Daleson coffee co. CF47 0ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Rachels Cafe Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good26 May 2026
Ty Lavendar CF47 0HEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m4 Good23 Oct 2025
Ty Daffodil CF47 0HEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m4 Good19 Dec 2025
Cyfarthfa Upper School CF47 0LSSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good3 Dec 2024
Tasty Pizza CF47 0DJTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Apr 2025

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.

22 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Vehicle crime3
Other crime1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fothergill Crescent (11); On or near Corporation Street (6); On or near Baden Terrace (4); On or near Fothergill Street (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 762 residents in 290 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 age4343
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over15%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%66%
Owned outright43%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented8%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work67%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)19%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%26%
Travel to work by car or van69%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus2%3%
On foot or by bicycle4%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%32%
No qualifications15%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)98%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • CF47 0HQ: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
  • CF47 0HS: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • CF47 0TJ: 1 address of 49 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Baden Terrace · Dickie Bird Lane · Fothergill Street · Corporation Street · Corporation Street · Corporation Street · Darren View · A4102 · Fothergill Street · Fothergill Street · Fothergill Crescent · Clos Clun Mil

All the streets in CF47 and across Merthyr Tydfil.

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.