Aylsham Mill was offered for sale in January 2003 by Aylsham Estate Agents, G.A Key. The mill still contained one of its original waterwheels and some of the gearing, although its fate is recorded in this paragraph from the main Aylsham Mill page:
One record states that the small wheel was removed and the large wheel was retained. During the early days of the war a toe bearing on an upright shaft broke and was replaced with a ball and thrust bearing made by SKF. A pit wheel was recogged using beech, apple and hornbeam. Unfortunately, after only running for a short time, a wedge holding the upright shaft shifted causing the shaft to move out of line, this resulted in many of the cogs breaking off. They were never replaced.