Violet Row Cardiff / Caerdydd, Cardiff

21 addresses across 2 postcodes (CF24), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5802060.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £161,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 8, E: 2).
  • 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 E; 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 660 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Roath Park, is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 15 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 18 of its 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Meddygfa Albany Surgery, about 180 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 490 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 28% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 251 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20221£161,500£161,500£161,500
20211£145,000£145,000£145,000
20201£220,000£220,000£220,000
20191£170,000£170,000£170,000
20091£180,000£180,000£180,000
20071£180,000£180,000£180,000
20011£84,950£84,950£84,950
19991£155,000£155,000£155,000
19961£45,000£45,000£45,000
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Dec 2022FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 14 CF24 4SFFlat or maisonette£161,500Leasehold.
6 Aug 2021FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 14 CF24 4SFFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
17 Mar 20208 CF24 4SFTerraced£220,000
20 Dec 201914 CF24 4SFTerraced£170,000Leasehold.
10 Oct 201714 CF24 4SFTerraced£165,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Nov 200910 CF24 4SFTerraced£180,000
29 Mar 200710 CF24 4SFTerraced£180,000
31 Aug 20012 CF24 4SFTerraced£84,950
23 Dec 199916 CF24 4SFDetached£155,000
28 Jun 19968 CF24 4SFTerraced£45,000

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 January 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 108 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); Flat (4); House, semi-detached (1). Built: before 1900 (8); 1900-1929 (3); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (8); owner-occupied (3); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 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 E (35% of about 600 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: of the 41 address points in this street's postcodes, 0 at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: none is in an area at risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 0 at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low risk
CF24 4SFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0
CF24 4NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0

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 addresses are about 15 m above sea level.

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
CF24 4NJ100%100%100%0%
CF24 4SF100%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 2024–25660 m (0.4 miles)
Cardiff Queen Street 2.0 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cardiff Central 13 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 69 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Royal George Hotel Roath50 m
Bus or coach stationCardiff Bus Interchange Bay 14 Cardiff Bus Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Ferry terminalCardiff Castle Waterbus Stop1.6 km (1 mile)
Car parksNational Museum Cardiff Visitor Car Park850 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL16 km (10 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Meddygfa Albany Surgery180 m
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Health Plus Pharmacy180 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Marlborough Dental Practice690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalUniversity Hospital Of Wales1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationCreys Road Police Station190 m
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier360 m

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Roath Park 38 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Maes Hamdden y Rhath 6.2 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsAllensbank Allotments 5.5 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 39 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Andrews United Reformed Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 640 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 62 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Andrews United Reformed ChurchListed building, Grade II*640 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Cathays LibraryListed building, Grade II*790 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Catholic Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) south
University of Wales, Cardiff, including Forecourt WallsListed building, Grade II*810 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Cathays ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Waterloo Gardens, Roath Mill Gardens and Roath Brook GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) east
Cardiff Castle and Roman FortScheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Dominican FriaryScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Pen y lan Roman SiteScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Queen WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
The LakeLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Nant Pant-BachValley2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Cardiff Bay WetlandsWetland3.7 km (2.3 miles) south
Cock HillHill4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-west
Bae CaerdyddBay4.6 km (2.8 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)15.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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
70 to 7420
65 to 69100
60 to 6430
55 to 5932
Under 55319

18 of the street's 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 2 from railways, 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
Albany Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11360 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Roath Park Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Marlborough Primary English mediumPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Fairoak Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Peter's RC Primary School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Tredegarville C/W Primary Church in Wales English mediumPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ysgol Mynydd Bychan Welsh mediumPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Stacey Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Adamsdown Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Monica's C.I.W. Primary School Church in Wales English mediumPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Cathays High School English mediumSecondary11–191.5 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern Welsh mediumSecondary11–191.5 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
Lucky Chef CF24 4NJTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m4 Good17 Oct 2025
CRUNX CHICKEN LIMITED CF24 4RQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 mAwaiting inspection
City Wok CF24 4RQTakeaway/sandwich shop80 mAwaiting inspection
The Royal George CF24 4RJPub/bar/nightclub80 m2 Improvement necessary13 Jul 2026
NO 16 LA BAGUETTE CF24 4RQOther catering premises90 m5 Very good14 Apr 2026
Shahjal Foods CF24 4SGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets100 m5 Very good29 Jan 2026
Stage&Stem CF24 3BTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 mAwaiting inspection
Dalchini CF24 4RQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
A to Z Stores CF24 4RQRetailers - other100 m5 Very good12 Jun 2024
Masala Bazaar CF24 3BTRetailers - other110 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Jun 2026
Roasties BBQ Street Roast CF24 4RQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Apr 2025
Spice of Life CF24 4RURetailers - other110 m4 Good27 Jan 2024
Pooja Sweets & Savouries CF24 3LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jan 2026
RICHMOND EXPRESS CF24 3BXOther catering premises140 m1 Major improvement necessary5 Feb 2026
Tesco CF24 3LHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets150 m5 Very good25 Feb 2026

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.

251 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting70
Violence and sexual offences61
Vehicle crime21
Public order19
Other theft18
Anti-social behaviour17
Criminal damage and arson13
Bicycle theft10
Drugs7
Burglary4
Other crime4
Robbery4
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Violet Row (127); On or near Crwys Place (38); On or near Rhymney Terrace (30); On or near Moy Road (17); On or near Braeval Street (16).

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: 488 residents in 181 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 age2443
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over6%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)28%66%
Owned outright11%38%
Shared ownershipunder 1%under 1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented64%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work48%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)8%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%26%
Travel to work by car or van27%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus8%3%
On foot or by bicycle29%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%32%
No qualifications13%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)86%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Zi's Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CF24 4ED) now 4 Good, was 2 Improvement necessary (rated 28 September 2026) found 3 November 2026

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.

Nearby streets

Moy Road · Crwys Place · Crwys Road · Braeval Street · Alexander Street · Inverness Place · Daviot Street · Norman Street · Arabella Street · Daviot Court · Basil Place · Rhymney Terrace

All the streets in CF24 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.