Historic Sanctuary
The Oasis Cornwall recording studio at Sawmills, where Definitely Maybe took shape, is on the market for £1.95 million. 
Its sale invites reflection on how geography and grit converged to forge a Britpop landmark.
Oasis Cornwall recording studio
Perched in Golant on the River Fowey, Sawmills offered isolation and intensity. Oasis tracked most of their debut there in 1994, sharing a lineage with The Stone Roses, Muse, and Robert Plant. The band lived on site, hiking in or catching the tide-timed boat, a constraint that sharpened focus and myth.
The Sessions’ Grit
The group first split sessions between Monnow Valley and Sawmills. Co-owner Dennis Smith recalled the urgency: they had ten days and needed to get it right. The raw takes still felt unresolved, prompting Creation’s Marcus Russell to tap producer Owen Morris. He mixed the album at Johnny Marr’s Manchester studio, bottling the ferocity that defined a generation.
A Studio With Soul
The listing describes a secluded waterside property set in outstanding natural beauty, sold for the first time in 50 years. It includes seven bedrooms, two reception rooms, a detached two-bedroom lodge, and a fully equipped studio. A control room, vocal booth, and a live room with a Juliet balcony overlook the creek, marrying pastoral calm with purposeful acoustics.
Legacy On The Water
Sawmills’ discography underlines its cultural heft. Landmark albums include Definitely Maybe, Supergrass’s In It For The Money, and Muse’s Origin of Symmetry. Such spaces shape music as much as microphones do, turning the environment into an instrument. 
Reunion Reverberations
Oasis’ Live ’25 shows frame this sale within a renewed public appetite. The band returned to Croke Park, dedicating Stand By Me to Peggy Gallagher, as the reunion stretches to North America, Wembley, and across Asia-Pacific and South America.
Their stadium resurgence echoes how the album’s punch still lands in 2025.
Place, Process, Permanence
Studios like Sawmills embody the alchemy between setting and sound. The Oasis Cornwall recording studio represents a chapter where isolation birthed immediacy, later refined by a decisive mix. As music-making disperses across laptops and bedrooms, these rare sanctuaries remind us why rooms still matter.
Final Cadence
Whoever buys Sawmills acquires more than square footage; they inherit a resonant engine of British rock. The Oasis Cornwall recording studio remains a testament to how landscape, limitations, and hunger can spark a classic. Its next act could shape future anthems, just as the tide shaped its past.
