The Yard is a 13,000 sq ft site in a former Victorian stables that brings together the design, production, repair, training and customer experience elements of Cubitts together under one roof. The space is home to a frame workshop, lens lab, design studio, archive, training academy, and bespoke consultation room, making it the only spectacle-making workshop in central London. The Yard is also designed to act as a cultural space, with a commercial kitchen and communal dining area allowing Cubitts to host talks, suppers, exhibitions<\/a> and industry events.<\/p>\n And there\u2019s something special on the outside of the building too as British artist David Shrigley, known for his deadpan and absurdist pieces, has created a mural for the exterior \u2013 a giant blue and red cockerel alongside the phrase \u201cIt was me that was crowing at dawn. Now you know\u201d.<\/p>\n Speaking about The Yard, Cubitts\u2019 founder Tom Broughton said: \u201cCubitts has always been rooted in King\u2019s Cross. We began on my kitchen table in Cubitt Street, and have moved through a series of increasingly unlikely spaces \u2014 offices, arches, borrowed corners \u2014 but never quite found our home. The Yard at Blundell Street is that home. Just off the Cally, in the shadow of Pentonville Prison, it feels very King\u2019s Cross: a working building for a working part of London.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve stripped away the paint and the lipstick, and let the building speak for itself. The London stock brick, the Victorian stable fabric, the original cobbled floor, the pine boards, even the 1980s post-modern concrete and purple ducting \u2014 all of it is part of the story. We didn\u2019t want to turn it into something pristine. We wanted to show it for what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n Key Information<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-yard-1.jpg\")
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