Boyces Mill is a tower mill at Norton Subcourse, Norfolk, United Kingdom. A drainage mill, the derelict stump survives.
History Boyce's Mill was standing in 1861, when Thomas Smithdale, the Norwich millwright quoted for repairs necessary to return the mill to working order. A new cap, sails, internal machinery and scoopwheel were quoted for, as was a portable steam engine and building to house it at a cost of 512. 1. 0. Smithdale quoted for Common sails, although the mill is known to have carried Patent sails. The steam engine building had a chimney tall. The engine was a 8 hp portable. It had a diameter cylinder. The flywheel was diameter. It had a Cornish boiler long and diameter.
The mill was marked on the 1884 Ordnance Survey map. It was sketched in March 1937 by artist Karl Wood. The mill was a two-storey stump by then, in good order. Arthur C. Smith surveyed the mill on 14 May 1977. The mill was then derelict.
Description Boyce's Mill is a tower mill. Four patent sails were carried on a cast iron windshaft, which also carried a cast iron brake wheel. This drove a cast iron wallower at the top of the upright shaft. The cast iron shaft that the scoopwheel was on was long and diameter. A portable steam engine was used for auxiliary power.
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