C.S. Lewis shared The Kilns with his brother and later Joy Davidman.
The Kilns was a house on the edge of Headington Quarry, near Oxford, where Lewis lived from 1929 until his death. He shared the home with his older brother, Warren Lewis, and the household became a central setting for their domestic and literary lives.
After Lewis married Joy Davidman, she and her sons also lived at The Kilns. The house and its surrounding woodland are closely associated with Lewis’s writing, correspondence, and daily routines. The pond on the property is often mentioned in accounts of the home.
The name can be confused with The Eagle and Child, the Oxford pub where Lewis and other writers met. The Eagle and Child was a meeting place; The Kilns was Lewis’s private residence. The house is now connected with the C.S. Lewis Foundation.