Blackburn House is a popular and reputable conference centre and is home to a number of small businesses.

Built in 1907, the building was originally called Blackburn Engine House. The purpose was to pump and provide water to the growing city of Nottingham, which it did so continuously until the 1970s when technological advances made it redundant.

For twenty years the building lay empty, in 1995 extensive re-development work was carried out and in 1998 the Blackburn Engine House was re-opened as Boughton Pumping Station Business Centre.