| The Kilns | |
|---|---|
 The Kilns in 1997 | |
  Location within Oxfordshire | |
| Alternative names | C. S. Lewis House |
| General information | |
| Type | Private house |
| Location | Risinghurst, Oxford, England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°45′24″N1°11′24″W / 51.7568°N 1.1900°W /51.7568; -1.1900 |
| Construction started | 1922 |
| Owner | C.S. Lewis Foundation |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Kilns, also known asC. S. Lewis House, is the house inRisinghurst,Oxford, England, where the authorC. S. Lewis wrote all of hisNarnia books and other classics.[1][2] The house itself was featured in the Narnia books.[3] Lewis's gardener at The Kilns,Fred Paxford, is said to have inspired the character ofPuddleglum the Marsh-wiggle inThe Silver Chair.[4]
The Kilns was built in 1922 on the site of a formerbrickworks.[1] The lake in the garden is a floodedclay pit. In 1930, The Kilns was bought by C. S. Lewis, his brotherWarren Lewis, and Janie Moore.Maureen Dunbar, Janie Moore's daughter, also lived there. C. S. Lewis wrote of the house: "I never hoped for the like". Janie Moore was the mother of Lewis's university friend Paddy Moore, who had been killed in theFirst World War.
The house is located in what is now calledLewis Close, south of Kiln Lane.
The Kilns is currently owned and operated by the C.S. Lewis Foundation, which runs it as the Study Centre at the Kilns.[5]
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