06/10/2026
Finding Dereham House…
When we began looking for our forever home in February 2025, we knew we were asking rather a lot.
First and foremost, it had to feel like home, somewhere our family could put down roots for many years to come. But it also needed to become the new home of The Buttery Dish, with enough space to bring all the ideas I had been dreaming about to life.
After months of searching and struggling to find anything that felt quite right, a close friend recommended Hannah Edge, Hannah Edge and from that moment, the search completely changed.
Hannah opened the door to properties we simply wouldn’t have found ourselves...homes being sold discreetly, opportunities that hadn’t yet been publicly listed and some that we would never have known were available. With our already busy lives, she also did so much of the groundwork for us, viewing properties beforehand and gently discounting those she knew wouldn’t work.
What I particularly loved was that Hannah really listened. She understood that we weren’t simply looking for a property or a business opportunity, we were looking for our forever home.
She was wonderfully diplomatic when we needed a little steering in the right direction, always giving us the pros and cons and never pushing us towards something that wasn’t right.
And then came Dereham House.
Hannah helped us negotiate the purchase and stayed beside us throughout the entire process, right up until the moment the keys were finally in our hands.
Always calm, endlessly patient and genuinely excited about what we were trying to create, somewhere along the way our property finder also became a friend.
Now, as we begin this next chapter and watch Dereham House slowly become both our family home and the new home of The Buttery Dish, it feels very special to remember how it all began.
So, if you’re dreaming of finding your own little corner of the Cotswolds, I couldn’t recommend having a conversation with Hannah highly enough.
Sometimes the right house isn’t the one you’re searching for.
It’s the one someone knows how to find.
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