The Oxford house where C.S. Lewis lived for much of his later life was The Kilns.
The Kilns was a house near Headington Quarry, outside Oxford. C.S. Lewis moved there in 1930 with his brother Warren Lewis and Janie Moore, the mother of his wartime friend Paddy Moore. The property took its name from lime kilns that had operated nearby.
The house became a major part of Lewis’s domestic and intellectual life. He wrote, read, entertained friends, and held conversations there, including meetings connected with the Inklings. The surrounding woodland also influenced later descriptions of Lewis’s home and landscape.
The Kilns is not the same place as Little Lea, the Belfast house where Lewis spent part of his childhood. It is also not The Eagle and Child, the Oxford pub associated with gatherings of the Inklings. The Kilns remains connected with the C.S. Lewis Foundation, which has worked to preserve and interpret the property.