The Kilns
C.S. Lewis's Oxford home from 1930, built 1922 on the site of a former brickworks. Now the C.S. Lewis Foundation Study Centre.
The Kilns is a working study centre, not a casual museum. View from the road if you turn up unannounced; book a tour through the C.S. Lewis Foundation if you want to see the interior.
The Kilns was built in 1922 on the site of a former brickworks in what is now Lewis Close, south of Kiln Lane in Risinghurst — the lake in the garden is a flooded clay pit left by the original works. In 1930 it was bought by C.S. Lewis, his elder brother Warren Lewis, and Janie Moore, and it remained Lewis's Oxford home for the rest of his life.
Today the house is owned and operated by the C.S. Lewis Foundation, which runs it as the Study Centre at the Kilns: a residential programme for scholars and writers, with guided tours of the house available by booking. The interior preserves Lewis's study and other rooms used by the household; the lake and grounds are part of the Lewis Close conservation setting. Visitors arriving without a booking should view from the close only and respect the residents.