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Frames in extra small to extra large. Goldilocks would have a lovely time.

9.5 out of 10 people would recommend Cubitts. We're working on the other 0.5.

Frames in extra small to extra large. Goldilocks would have a lovely time.

9.5 out of 10 people would recommend Cubitts. We're working on the other 0.5.

Coal Drops Yard

Stores Coal Drops Yard
Coal Drops Yard

14 Bagley Walk Arches,
Coal Drops Yard,
London,
N1C 4DH

Opening hours

Monday to Saturday - 10am-7pm
Sunday - 11am-5pm

Services

Enhanced OCT examinations
Routine eye examinations
Frame repairs and adjustments
Lens changes
Made to Measure services
Fully wheelchair accessible

+44203 404 5044 coaldrops@cubitts.com
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Eye exams available for those aged 16 or older. We do not provide exams under the NHS or contact lens checks.

Nestled in the brick arches of Bagley Walk, our Cubitts store is a modern reinterpretation of Coal Drops Yard’s industrial heritage.

The Coal Drops buildings were part of Lewis Cubitt’s King’s Cross station development, built to transfer coal from rail wagons to road carts. Above our humble arch, wagons once dropped coal into storage hoppers, and then to horse-drawn carts. Up the hill in Granary Square, the Lewis Cubitt-designed wrought iron girders that inspired the butterfly rivet can be found punctuating the ground.

Up the hill in Granary Square, the Lewis Cubitt-designed wrought iron girders that inspired the butterfly rivet can be found punctuating the ground.

Bespoke brass and wood fittings are tailored to architectural niches and unique curving walls, against exposed Victorian brickwork.

A specially made spectacle repairs station is constructed in the spirit of rebirth, with reclaimed wood from the yard held together with custom butterfly rivet clamps. A waiting area is serviced by a pair of 1960s Ercol ‘cow horn’ chairs, and an adjustable table from neighbour Tom Dixon.

At the rear of the store, a testing room including an optical coherence tomography machine for enhanced eye examinations. Coal Drops Yard is Cubitts’ only fully wheelchair accessible eye examination site. The store also offers frame repairs, adjustments, lens changes and bespoke services.

The Cubitts Coal Drops Yard collection

Four silhouettes, designed exclusively for Cubitts Coal Drops Yard. York, taking its name from the street straddling the length of King’s Cross station, with a supra lens design inspired by the two great Lewis Cubitt arches designating the station’s frontage. Gray, with a pleasing asymmetry taken the modern Coal Drops' dramatic roof. Vale, an undulating asymmetrical shape with details of Coal Drops' modern architecture. And Midland, a cat eye silhouette nodding to the spears of Boudica, named after the street where she was fabled to be buried.

The Coal Drops Yard store collection, frames exclusive designed in celebration of local history

The eye examination room at Coal Drops Yard is fully wheelchair accessible

A repairs station, with the distinctive Cubitts brothers engineering rivet