Having ventilation in the roof void is a requirement for building regulations approval. Fitting ventilated soffits is the typical way that this roof ventilation is achieved. If you do not have roof ventilation, you may find that your roof void has problems with condensation or overheating.
Ilminster
Ilminster is a community and also civil parish in the countryside of south west Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the community currently lies just eastern of the joint of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to Chard as well as Axminster). The parish consists of the community of Sea. Ilminster is stated in files dating from 725 and also in a Charter granted to the Abbey of Muchelney (10 miles (16 kilometres) to the north) by King Ethelred in 995. Ilminster is additionally discussed in the Domesday Book (1086) as Ileminstre implying 'The church on the River Isle' from the Old English ysle and mynster. By this duration Ilminster was a prospering community and was granted the right to hold a regular market, which it still does. Ilminster became part of the thousand of Abdick and also Bulstone. In 1645 during the English Civil War Ilminster was the scene of a skirmish in between legislative soldiers under Edward Massie and also Royalist pressures under Lord Goring who defended control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport. The town consists of the buildings of a sixteenth-century grammar school, the Ilminster Meeting House, which serves as the community's art gallery and concert hall. There is also a Gospel Hall.