3 Coronation Street 3 Coronation Street is the second house going east on Coronation Street and is located between No . 1 and No . 5 . The current owner is Norris Cole , who has lived there since 2000 , initially as the previous owner Emily Bishop ' s lodger . Previous to that , it was Emily and Ernest Bishop ' s marital home . A widow since 1978 , Emily has rarely been alone at No . 3 , taking in many lodgers including Deirdre Langton , Curly Watts , Percy Sugden and her nephew Spider Nugent . Her kindly nature meant she was usually the first port of call when a neighbour or an old friend needed a bed for the night . In 2013 , Norris began to worry about the possibility that he would have nowhere to live following Emily ' s death , and so she signed the house over to him on the condition that she continued to reside there . Other past residents include Frank , Ida , Ken and David Barlow , and Dickie and Audrey Fleming . The house was empty for four years between 1964 and 1968 until the Flemings bought it . History . Construction . No . 3 was built along with the rest of the row between 1900 and 1902 . In its original configuration , the house was comprised of a parlour , hallway , kitchen and scullery on the ground floor and a landing and three bedrooms on the first floor , with a back yard containing an outside lavatory . In Coronation Street , it was identical to Nos . 7 and 11 and the mirror image of Nos . 1 , 5 , 9 and 13 in that , from a vantage point looking into the house from the front door , the staircase was on the left and the rooms on the right . Construction was completed on 9th August 1902 and the first family to move in was the Hewitts - the only family name from the Coronation Street of 1902 to survive into the 1960s . Modifications . Like the other houses in the street , very little money was lavished on No . 3 by the landlords and it saw no major upgrades in its first fifty years . The first two families to occupy the house - the Hewitts and the Chads - lived in poverty , and four members of the Hewitt clan died from TB by the end of 1909 . Determined to have a clean house , Gertie Hewitt and her surviving children set fire to their furniture and cleansed the rooms with carbolic acid . The Barlows saw better times in the house ; alterations carried out under their watch included the conversion of the third bedroom into a bathroom ( with a plumbed - in bath ) , the kitchen into a living / dining room and scullery into a kitchen , making it one of the more desirable houses in Coronation Street at that point . In 1964 , Frank Barlow won £5 , 000 on Premium Bonds and put No . 3 on the market , moving to a detached house in Cheshire . The house didn ' t sell right away , and once Frank had left the area , No . 3 became an afterthought . It lay empty for four years before being bought by Dickie Fleming and Audrey Bright , who couldn ' t afford the £975 asking price Ken Barlow wanted for 9 Coronation Street but could manage £400 for the neglected No . 3 . Sympathetic to the young couple , Len Fairclough offered to do it up free of charge , carrying out repairs to the parlour ceiling which caved in two days after they bought it . The ever - helpful neighbours carried out a re - decoration of the back room ( and , presumably , other rooms ) in both 1971 and 1972 , for Ken Barlow and Ernie and Emily Bishop respectively . Ken also had a telephone installed at No . 3 . The Bishops were content with their house the way it was and made few changes ; the only work carried out over the next 25 years ( other than the occasional re - decoration ) was the installation of a new front door in 1980 and double glazing in 1989 . In 1999 , a romantic evening between Spider Nugent and Toyah Battersby ended in chaos when a candle fell over and set the curtains alight . Spider and Toyah put the fire out but Emily ' s back room was gutted . Horrified that he ' d let his aunt Emily down , Spider tracked down the original wallpaper supplier ( as it had been discontinued ) and Hayley Cropper repaired the curtains . However , Emily still knew right away that the room had been re - decorated . Subsequent alterations to the house included the installation of a burglar alarm system in 2000 and new roof tiles being added in 2016