Large group accommodation in Dorset
Big houses and cottages across Dorset, for a group of eight or more.
Bring a group of eight or more to Dorset and the search usually ends at the water. Large houses cluster around Sandbanks and Poole, quieter cottages sit out west near the coast path, and the biggest places sit mostly inland when you need the extra bedrooms.
71 stays
Southbourne, Dorset
Beach View
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,211 per week
View stayBlandford, Dorset
Byre House
Sleeps 8 · 3 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
From £1,113 per week
View stayDorchester, Dorset
Creaky Cottage (8)
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £938 per week
View stayWeymouth, Dorset
East Cottage
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £700 per week
View staySandbanks, Dorset
Grasmere Beach House
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Games room
- Dog friendly
From £2,682 per week
View stayHighcliffe-on-Sea, Dorset
Kittiwake
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,017 per week
View stayDorchester, Dorset
Manor Farmhouse
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Baby welcome
From £1,032 per week
View staySandbanks, Dorset
Panorama 39
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Pool
- Dog friendly
From £2,420 per week
View stayCharmouth, Dorset
Albury House
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,339 per week
View stayAbbotsbury, Dorset
Chesil Watch
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,686 per week
View stayAbbotsbury, Dorset
Furlongs
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Games room
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,195 per week
View stayBridport, Dorset
All Views
Sleeps 12 · 6 bedrooms
- Games room
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,892 per week
View staySandbanks, Dorset
21W
Sleeps 16 · 7 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £5,115 per week
View stayAnsty, Dorset
Dorset Eco Retreats
Sleeps 16 · 8 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Log fire
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,664 per week
View stayDorchester, Dorset
Wraxall Yard
Sleeps 21 · 11 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £2,706 per week
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Large holiday homes in Dorset with a swimming pool
Dorset has a small set of large holiday homes with their own outdoor pools, mostly near the coast. A pool does a lot of the entertaining for you: where a stay has one it shows on the card, and the pool filter above narrows the list to just those.
Where to stay in Dorset with a big group
Dorset's large holiday homes and cottages cluster in three areas.
Sandbanks and Poole Harbour. Nowhere in Dorset has more big houses close together than the Sandbanks peninsula, beach on one side, harbour on the other. Good for a group that wants to fall out of the house and onto the beach.
West Dorset and Lyme Regis. Out west the coast turns into fossil-hunting and cliff-path country. Lyme Regis, Charmouth and the hills behind them hold fewer houses with more space between them, and suit a group building the week around the coast path.
Inland around Dorchester. The largest houses tend to sit inland, around Dorchester and the villages behind the coast. If nothing on the coast is big enough, look here next.
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Frequently asked questions
Are there large holiday homes in Dorset with a swimming pool?
Yes, though not many. Dorset has a small number of large holiday homes with their own outdoor pools, sleeping 8 or more, mostly near the coast. The pool filter on this page shows what qualifies.
Where should a large group stay in Dorset?
For beach-first trips, Sandbanks and the wider Poole area hold the biggest concentration of group-sized houses. For coast path walking and a quieter week, look west around Lyme Regis and Charmouth. The largest houses of all tend to sit inland around Dorchester.
What if our group is too big for one house?
On Sandbanks, a few large houses sit side by side as numbered pairs, so a bigger group can book two front doors a few steps apart. Share a shortlist of the neighbouring options and put it to the group before you commit to the split.
Is Dorset good for a group with dogs?
Very. Most of Dorset's large houses take dogs, and the coast path plus out-of-season beaches do the rest. Policies vary by house, so check the listing before you promise anyone's spaniel a holiday.
How does Flock work, and how do I book?
You book directly with the owner or letting agency, at their price, with nothing added by us. Flock pulls together the houses that genuinely work for a group, so you're not trawling dozens of sites for the few stays big enough for your group on each, and we give you the tools to get the group off the fence: build a shortlist, share it round so everyone can weigh in, and put the decision to a vote. The plan stops living in the chat and actually happens.