14 Bagley Walk Arches, Coal Drops Yard, N1C 4DH
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Services
Enhanced OCT examinations
Routine eye examinations
Frame repairs and adjustments
Lens changes
Bespoke services
Fully wheelchair accessible
Contact
Opening hours
Monday to Friday - 10am-7pm
Saturday - 10am-7pm
Sunday - 11am-5pm
Address
14 Bagley Walk Arches,
Coal Drops Yard,
London,
N1C 4DH
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.
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.
A collection of silhouettes with designs drawn from the local area is available exclusively to Cubitts Coal Drops Yard, through our Bespoke service.
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. Vale, named after the nearby Anthony Gormley studio with a suitably weathered design. Gray, an undulating asymmetrical shape where makers And Midland, a cat eye silhouette nodding to the spears of Boudica, named after the street where she was fabled to be buried.