The Kilns (C S Lewis House)
Modest brick home of a Narnia author, beside a wooded nature reserve and flooded clay-pit lake.
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This guide to The Kilns in Headington, Oxford, turns on the plain brick house C. S. Lewis shared with his brother Warnie, Mrs Janie Moore and her daughter Maureen from nineteen thirty. It follows the autumn of nineteen thirty-nine, when war came and children evacuated from London arrived at the door. Best heard on Lewis Close, looking past the house towards the woods and the old clay-pit lake.
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