9 Coronation Street 9 Coronation Street is the third house going west on the terraced side of Coronation Street . The house is well known for its blue bricks , guttering and front door . It is situated between No . 7 and No . 11 . No . 9 is currently home to Tyrone Dobbs , his daughter Ruby Soames , Fiz Stape , her daughter Hope Stape and Tyrone ' s work colleague Freddie Smith . Tyrone had been Jack and Vera Duckworth ' s lodger when they owned the house . They sold it to him instead of leaving it to their son Terry as Tyrone had been a better son to them , despite not being a blood relation . The striking appearance of the house - namely the stone cladding - was Vera ' s idea , as she wanted it to stand out . Some years later , Vera renamed the house " The Old Rectory " , when she was trying to out - do the neighbours . Other past residents include Ivan , Linda , and Paul Cheveski , Ken , Valerie , Peter , and Susan Barlow , Len Fairclough , Ray Langton , Jerry Booth , Rita Fairclough , Chalkie and Craig Whitely , Curly Watts , Judy , Billy , Becky and Gary Mallett , Maria Connor , Molly Dobbs , Tommy Duckworth , Tina McIntyre and Kirsty Soames . History . Construction . Coronation Street was built in 1902 , opposite Hardcastle ' s Mill and the Glad Tidings Mission Hall . No . 9 had an identical configuration to the six other residential houses in the row : on the ground floor , a front parlour , hallway , back room and scullery , three bedrooms on the first floor , and an outside toilet and coal hole in the yard . The first family to move in was the Crappers , on 9th August 1902 . Modifications . When Ted and Amy Gibson were moving into the house in 1950 , they persuaded landlord Edward Wormold to carry out improvements to the back room and scullery ; the wall between them was demolished , and the kitchen was extended to the far wall , making the Gibsons the envy of the street . However , their rent was raised accordingly . Neither the Cheveskis nor the Barlows did much with No . 9 other than the usual upkeep and decorating . In 1964 , Ken Barlow agreed to Ted Grieves ' s sky - high quote to decorate the house , but Ted walked out when Ken told him to do a good job . The following year , Ken and Valerie ' s twins Peter and Susan were born , and Ken employed Len Fairclough and Jerry Booth to turn the front parlour into a playroom . It had previously been used as a salon by Val . When Rita Littlewood married Len and moved into No . 9 , where Len had lived since 1968 , she was greatly dissatisfied with the way he lived and was surprised that Len , who owned his own construction business , ran a house which was barely fit for living in . In 1980 , Rita gave Len a list of alterations she wanted done to the house , including a fitted kitchen and two rooms knocked into one . Len scoffed at her ideas but - after some persuasion - he installed a new kitchen and put in central heating , though the parlour and back rooms remained separate . The biggest change to No . 9 took place in 1989 , when Vera Duckworth had the front of the house stone - clad , to the neighbours ' horror . The garish cladding clashed with the other houses in the Street , which were all red brick , but it was precisely that effect that Vera was aiming for and thus she was pleased with it , although she and Jack were put out when they discovered a few months later that the cladding had de - valued the house . The cladding was re - painted by Clifford Duckworth in 1994 , making the blues a deeper shade . When Tyrone Dobbs bought the house in 2008 , his girlfriend Molly Compton decided to have the cladding removed as it sent out the wrong message about the house ' s inhabitants . As soon as worked started on removing it , however , it was discovered that the cladding was fixed on so firmly that they would have to re - render the entire front of the house . Molly then decided to leave the cladding as it was , and Vera ' s legacy remained . In 1991 , the water went off in Coronation Street while Vera was running a bath . It wasn ' t turned on again until a few days later , and it was without warning , so the house then flooded . Jack Duckworth made an insurance claim but then , seeing an opportunity to decorate the whole house at the insurance company ' s expense , embellished the claim by saying that water had run through to the hall and back room , and faked water damage to those rooms . However , the insurance company didn ' t believe the claim and refused to pay anything , so Jack had to pay for the repairs and decorations out of his own pocket . In their second stint at No . 9 , the Duckworths continued to make cosmetic improvements , and installed a new fitted kitchen in 2000 . Two years later , while trying out - do Doreen Heavey , Vera renamed the house " The Old Rectory " and put a sign outside the front door . Doreen changed the sign to read " The Old Wreck " which Vera then painted over so that it again read " The Old Rectory . " Tyrone Dobbs bought the house in 2008 and has yet to make any major improvements , other than the decoration of the back room on the year he became the owner .