7 Coronation Street 7 Coronation Street is the central house in Coronation Street and is located between No . 5 and No . 9 . No . 7 is unique in the Street as it was technically built in 1982 by Len Fairclough . The original No . 7 was demolished in 1965 when the front of the house collapsed due to a faulty beam and the owner , Mr Wormold , had it destroyed due to the massive cost of repairs . However , aside from the brickwork , the new house does not differ hugely from the old one . The current owner is Dev Alahan , proprieter of the Corner Shop and Prima Doner in Victoria Street . Dev bought the house in 2010 off Maria Connor after reconciling with his ex - wife Sunita . They lived there with their twin children Aadi and Asha for two years . The couple separated and Sunita ' s lover Karl Munro moved in after his affair with Sunita was publicly exposed . He moved out later in the year . Sunita was tragically killed in a fire at The Rovers in 2013 , which was started by Karl . Widower Dev now lives there with the twins . Previous residents include Len and Rita Fairclough , Jenny and Alan Bradley , Angie Freeman , Curly and Raquel Watts , Samantha Failsworth , Emma Watts , Danny , Frankie , Jamie and Warren Baldwin , and Liam and Maria Connor . The old No . 7 was the home of Harry , Concepta and Lucille Hewitt but was uninhabited at the time of its collapse . History . Construction . 7 Coronation Street was built along with the other houses in the row , including the Corner Shop and the Rovers Return , between 1900 and 1902 . When built , all houses had the same layout ( although adjacent houses were mirror images of each other ) : a front parlour , a separate hallway and staircase , a kitchen and scullery on the ground floor , three bedrooms upstairs , and an outside toilet and coal hole in the back yard . The house was completed on 9th August 1902 and the first family to move in was the Popplewells . Modifications : The original house . After the Popplewells came the Hewitts , who inhabited No . 7 until 1964 . Thomas and Mary Hewitt lost their jobs at Hardcastle ' s Mill when it closed in 1931 and after six months on the dole , Thomas sold all of their possessions except for their beds and a table in order to apply for assistance under the Means Test . When Concepta Riley married Harry Hewitt and moved into No . 7 , she insisted on changes , as the decor and furniture had remained the same since before Harry ' s first wife passed away . Harry gave in and purchased a new suite for the front bedroom and decorated the house in preparation for the birth of their son Christopher in 1962 . Collapse and rebuilding . In 1965 , the neighbours heard a crash coming from No . 7 and rushed out of their homes to investigate . By this time , the house had been empty for a year and had been ignored by the landlord , Mr Wormold . As a result , a faulty beam over the bay window had gone unchecked , and a slight weakness in the foundation caused the house to move a fraction . When the neighbours arrived at the scene , they discovered that the front wall of the house had collapsed , covering the front room and hallway with bricks and dust . The house was checked over by a Surveyor , who recommended that Wormold have the house shored up to support the roof and floors , preventing further movement , and allayed the neighbours ' fears that the rest of the row was at risk from collapse . Wormold hired Len Fairclough and Jerry Booth to do the job right away , but he rejected their quote of nearly £300 for a new wall , window frames and a concrete foundation , and decided to cut his losses and have the entire front section of the house demolished instead . Len and Jerry carried out the work and within weeks , all that remained of the front section of No . 7 was a plastered brick wall . Len kept a vested interest in No . 7 ; 1967 he used his council connections to have a bench put in the space . Fourteen years later , Len bought the land and set about re - building the house . The new house was mostly the same as the old house in its basic layout , retaining the front / back downstairs rooms and bedrooms , with glass doors separating the two downstairs rooms , but had modern amenities including central heating . In May 1982 , it was checked over by Building Inspector Frank Hurst , who passed the house except for the joists and cavities , which Len was made to replace . With Sharon Gaskell ' s help , he completed the new No . 7 a month later . Len was so taken with the house that he was easily persuaded by Rita that they shouldn ' t sell it , as initially planned , but that they should live there themselves . Modifications : The rebuilt house . Ten years later , Curly Watts bought No . 7 . Curly was interested in astronomy and had owned a telescope . With his own house , Curly could indulge himself and paid Neil Mitchell to carry out a loft conversion , turning the attic into an observatory . A skylight was fitted into the roof , the window was made able to open , and Curly bought a new telescope for the new room . His project disappointed his fiancée , Kimberley Taylor , who had assumed that he was installing a third bedroom . Kimberley thought the telescope a waste of money and dumped Curly for not putting their wedding plans first . Curly also put in new windows , and decorated the back room in 1994 with Raquel Wolstenhulme ' s help . Though renting No . 7 from Blanche Hunt , Danny and Frankie Baldwin and family made a significant change to the downstairs rooms . The glass doors were removed , the space in the old front room was turned into a dining room , and both rooms were re - decorated . Further decorations to the downstairs rooms were carried out in 2008 and 2010 .