The Kilns was the name of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford home near Headington Quarry. Lewis moved into the house in 1930 with his brother Warren and lived there for the rest of his life.
The house became an important setting for Lewis’s domestic and intellectual life. He hosted friends there, including members of the Inklings, and wrote many of his best-known works while living at the property. The surrounding landscape also helped shape readers’ images of Lewis’s private world.
The Kilns should not be confused with the Eagle and Child pub, where Lewis and other Oxford writers often met. The Eagle and Child was a social meeting place in central Oxford; The Kilns was Lewis’s residence. The house later became associated with the C.S. Lewis Foundation and has been preserved as a site connected with his life.