13 Coronation Street 13 Coronation Street is the rightmost residential house on the terraced side of Coronation Street , Weatherfield . Built with the rest of the row in 1902 , it is situated between 11 Coronation Street and the Corner Shop . The house contains a front parlour , kitchen / dining room and hallway on the ground floor , and two bedrooms and a bathroom on the upper floor . The current owner is Kevin Webster , who moved in together with his son Jack in 2012 after buying it from Steve McDonald . Past residents include Christine Hardman , Jerry and Myra Booth , Stan , Hilda and Irma Ogden , Eddie Yeats , Sally , Rosie and Sophie Webster , and Ashley , Claire , Joshua and Freddie Peacock . Before it was bought by Steve , it was owned by Lloyd Mullaney who lived there with his girlfriend Cheryl Gray and her son Russ until their relationship ended . History . Construction . Construction of 13 Coronation Street took place between 1900 and 1902 . It was built at the same time as the other houses in the terrace . As originally configured , the house had a front parlour , a main hall , a kitchen and scullery on the ground floor and three bedrooms on the upper floor , with an outside lavatory in the yard . Modifications . Many improvements to No . 13 have echoed the changing fashions in housing since 1902 , including the conversion of the scullery into a kitchen and the use of the back room as a dining room , as well as the installation of a bathroom in one of the upstairs bedrooms . Some time in the 1960s , probably in 1964 , the electrics at No . 13 were rewired . For the next 23 years , the Ogdens lived at the house . Their most notable addition to the house was a serving hatch between the back room and front parlour , which Stan Ogden made himself to prove to Len Fairclough and Ray Langton that he could handle the job alone . When Len and Ray viewed it , they pointed out to Stan that the hatch ' s specifications were drawn up for a canteen , and it was much larger than a typical domestic serving hatch , but Hilda loved it . In 1973 , while Hilda was away visiting her brother Archie Crabtree , Stan didn ' t take care of the house and his neighbour Elsie Tanner phoned the health inspectors . The house had to be fumigated as mice and cockroaches were found . In 1978 , the house was flooded when Stan left the bath taps on . It ruined Hilda ' s mural ( Hilda called it a " murial " ) - a picture of the Canadian Rockies which adorned her back room ( which Hilda thought made her the envy of the street ) - but rather than replace it with wallpaper she chose another mural , this time of a seascape with flying ducks . This remained on the wall until early 1988 , and even when it was replaced it was only wallpapered over . Years later , in 2002 , decorator Alex Jordan unearthed it while stripping the walls . Also in 1978 , a slate went missing from No . 13 ' s roof , allowing a nest of pigeons to form in the loft of the neighbouring house , home of Elsie Tanner . Hilda felt no desire to fix the problem as the pigeons weren ' t bothering her , but was fuming when Elsie ' s lodger Suzie Birchall accidentally broke through No . 13 ' s bedroom ceiling while trying to block the gap in the roof left by the missing slate . The situation was resolved when Elsie took Hilda to court and the Arbiter decided they should each pay for their own repairs . When Hilda moved out in 1987 , Kevin and Sally Webster bought the house and modernised it by putting in a new serving hatch and an entirely new kitchen . Bill Webster installed another new kitchen in 1995 after starting a fire which destroyed the old one . Aside from these , the Websters did not make many changes to the house in their twenty years living there . The next tenants , the Peacocks , had a rocky start in the house as the fuse box blew on the day they moved in , leaving the house without electricity . Bill Webster carried out the repairs . When they moved into the house properly , more work was done to the back room and kitchen , removing the wall between the rooms . In the 2010 tram crash , No . 13 was affected by damage to the Corner Shop and caught fire . The house was completely refurbished in 2011 , laying empty for six months . In 2012 , the house was briefly converted into separate flats by Owen Armstrong at the insistence of Steve McDonald as he didn ' t want to live with Tracy . During this time , Tracy had to use one of the bedrooms as a living room and Steve had to go to the Rovers to shower . The house was returned to normal several weeks later when Steve felt he ' d made his point . Unlucky thirteen ? While most of the other houses in Coronation Street have seen families fall on hard times , No . 13 has been noted by some Street residents for bringing even more bad luck , with some attributing the ills of its residents to the fact that the house number is thirteen . Catastrophes involving the house have included the sudden deaths of its first residents , Enid and Lizzie Harrison , only four months after moving in . The Harrisons themselves were seen as oddities by their neighbours as they kept to themselves and spoke to each other in French when they visited the Corner Shop . The deaths of Vic and Bob Piggott on the Somme followed , and the death of Emma Piggott , and later the disappearance of Tom Lingard , which resulted in his family ' s eviction . The Hardmans were especially unlucky as May ' s sister Madge was killed when a shard of glass sliced through her body when she was seeking shelter in the backyard coal hole when the house opposite was hit by a bomb . Having moved away from the house , the Hardmans returned in reduced circumstances after George ' s death , and May ' s death followed from a brain tumour in 1960 . On occasion , bad luck happened even outside the house , such as in 1961 when a slate fell off the house ' s roof and hit Minnie Caldwell on the head . Fortunately she was not seriously hurt . In the 1960s and 1970s , the Ogdens had such bad luck that Hilda told Stan to change the house number to 12a , blaming their circumstances on the number thirteen . However , when they went outside to see the new numbers , they were locked out , proving that the luck was down to them and not the house , so it was changed back to 13 . During the tram crash of December 2010 , the house caught fire after an electrical explosion caused by broken Christmas lights . The Peacocks later fled from the street following Claire ' s assault on Tracy Barlow , leaving the house ruined and empty . In April 2011 , Lloyd Mullaney purchased the house with plans to renovate it . He stated that there were no other offers for the property and this could possibly be due to potential buyers being repulsed by its dark history .