Nottingham Post published Newark property: Former pumping station goes under the hammer

This week's unusual auction lot is a Grade-II listed former water pumping station near Newark.Converted Blackburn House has been used for weddings, conferences and serviced offices but now it's going under the hammer in an online property auction.The five-storey property is set in over four acres of grounds and has a guide price of £650,000. Richard Reed, head of property at John Pye Property Auctions, the auctioneers for the building, said this was one of more than 30 lots from a...