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Eileen Grimshaw’s No.11 on Coronation Street: How many can it hold?

Eileen's house always seems to be full

Coronation Street character Eileen Grimshaw has lived No.11 since 2001 and bought the property in 2010.

Ever since, many people have moved in and out of No.11, but just how big is the property?

How many Corrie residents live there now Dylan has moved in and how many bedrooms are there?

Coronation Street Dylan speaking to Sean
 Dylan now lives at No.11 (Credit: ITV)

Who lives at No.11 Coronation Street?

Eileen owns the property but doesn’t live there alone.

Currently there are five people who technically live in the property: Eileen, her son Todd Grimshaw, her two lodgers Mary Taylor and Sean Tully and Sean’s son Dylan.

Eileen’s boyfriend George also stays over, however he does not live there.

Dylan recently told his dad that he wanted to live in Weatherfield with him.

After speaking to Dylan’s mum Violet, she agreed to let him move to Manchester.

Sean lives with Eileen (Credit: ITV)

How big is No.11 Coronation Street?

With five people living in the house (six if you count George) and Dylan having just moved in, fans have been left wondering just how big the house is and have jokingly compared it to Doctor Who’s Tardis.

So just how big is Eileen’s house?

In No.11 there’s the kitchen and living room which we regularly see on-screen.

There is also another downstairs room which is believed to be used as a bedroom.

According to Coronation Street wiki it was originally built with three upstairs bedrooms, however in 1960s Elsie Tanner had Len Fairclough turn one bedroom into a bathroom, as the toilet would’ve been outside.

However Antony Cotton, who plays Sean, has described the layout of the house before and mentions that the house was built as a two up two down, but now has three upstairs rooms.

Antony has explained the house layout (Credit: ITV)

Antony Cotton explain the layout of Eileen’s house

Back in 2020, Sean worried about when his son Dylan would stay and wanted him to have his own bedroom.

When asked how Sean felt about bringing Dylan to stay at Eileen’s, the actor told Entertainment Daily and other media at the time: “Well he’s worried about the sleeping arrangements as in who’s going to fit where.

“And Eileen’s house is a Tardis so I’m just going to explain how the house works.

“Sean lives in the front parlour. And up north they use to have a front parlour because they never had a toilet. So they’d have a front parlour, which was an extra room.

Dylan stays with his dad (Credit: ITV)

“Now some people would have it as a parlour, some people would have it as a bedroom because there wasn’t a toilet upstairs, because they’d have two up, two down and one out the back.

“So Sean has always been in the front parlour and we’re saying that upstairs there is three bedrooms. So there is room. Although it does appear like a madhouse when you’ve each room sleeping with two people in.

“But as the old Northern saying goes, ‘the best house is a full house.'”

He continued: “Initially because there’s Mary, Todd’s come back, Eileen’s there, potentially somebody else maybe upstairs and Sean’s down at the front, so it is a bit of a case of ‘well we’re just kind of making do for the moment.'”

Read more: Coronation Street in 2022: Who’s leaving and who’s joining Weatherfield?

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Coronation Street usually airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV.

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Charlotte Rodrigues
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Charlotte Rodrigues joined Entertainment Daily in April 2018, as Audience Engagement Executive. A huge soap fan, Charlotte then became Senior Soap Writer, delivering the latest storylines and spoilers to our followers.