Thornham, Norfolk
2 Priory Court
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Games room
- Dog friendly
From £895 per week
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Large group accommodation in Norfolk
Big houses near the Norfolk coast, for groups of eight people or more.
For a big group, Norfolk is mostly a coast story. The stretch that matters runs west along the top of the county, Hunstanton through Brancaster and Burnham to Wells, where flint farmhouses and barns big enough for the whole party sit a field back from the salt marsh. The beaches are enormous and empty out the moment you walk past the car park, and the village pubs do the local mussels and crab. None of it leans on summer: the light and the space are the draw, so a grey February weekend works about as well as a hot week in August, with a fire lit and a pub down the lane for when the wind comes in off the sea.
121 homes
Docking, Norfolk
6 Courtyard Barn
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £968 per week
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Brancaster, Norfolk
Appletree Barn (Brancaster)
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Pool
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,812 per week
View stayBurnham Market, Norfolk
Beacon Lodge
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £855 per week
View stayWood Norton, Norfolk
Bear's Cottage
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £974 per week
View stayWells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Coxswain's House
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Games room
- Log fire
From £968 per week
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Thornham, Norfolk
Drifters
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,250 per week
View staySalthouse, Norfolk
Eastgate Cottage and Hideaway
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,362 per week
View stayOld Hunstanton, Norfolk
Fairway
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,118 per week
View stayDocking, Norfolk
Field Corner
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,361 per week
View staySedgeford, Norfolk
Field View
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £780 per week
View stayWarham, Norfolk
Fitters Barn
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,776 per week
View stayCongham, Norfolk
Grooms Cottage (Congham)
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
Price on request
View stayWells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Grove House
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
From £1,021 per week
View stayMattishall, Norfolk
Heath Cottage
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £757 per week
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Hideaway House
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £955 per week
View stayHolme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
High Road Farm House
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,240 per week
View stayWarham, Norfolk
Indigo Barn
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £2,195 per week
View stayWells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Kipling House (8)
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £922 per week
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Lantern Cottage
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
From £932 per week
View stayWells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Mount Zion
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,454 per week
View stayBrancaster Staithe, Norfolk
Old Posting
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,043 per week
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Burnham Market, Norfolk
Owl Cottage (Woodside)
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £933 per week
View stayBurnham Market, Norfolk
Perrystone Cottage (8)
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
From £1,289 per week
View stayHackford, Norfolk
Pillar Box House
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £939 per week
View stayRingstead, Norfolk
Saltings House
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £972 per week
View stayBrancaster Staithe, Norfolk
Sandpipers
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £865 per week
View stayBurnham Thorpe, Norfolk
School House
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Pool
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,424 per week
View stayWells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Seashells
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £987 per week
View stayLittle Walsingham, Norfolk
The Chapter House
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
From £1,611 per week
View stayRingstead, Norfolk
The Coach House (Ringstead)
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,200 per week
View stayDersingham, Norfolk
The Malthouse
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £933 per week
View stayOld Hunstanton, Norfolk
The Old Dormitory
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,360 per week
View stayEastmoor, Norfolk
The Old Foundry
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £849 per week
View stayWarham, Norfolk
The Old School House (Warham)
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Pool
- Log fire
From £1,666 per week
View stayWatlington, Norfolk
The Stable Cottage
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Log fire
From £1,476 per week
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Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Wynholme
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,086 per week
View stayWells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
St Michael's Cottage
Sleeps 9 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,555 per week
View staySouth Creake, Norfolk
Swan Cottage
Sleeps 9 · 5 bedrooms
- Pool
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
Price on request
View stayThornham, Norfolk
At Monterey
Sleeps 10 · 4 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,446 per week
View stayBurnham Market, Norfolk
Estcourt House
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,662 per week
View stayBurnham Market, Norfolk
Field Piece Cottage
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,449 per week
View stayFring, Norfolk
Gardener's Cottage (Fring)
Sleeps 10 · 4 bedrooms
- Pool
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,202 per week
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Heacham, Norfolk
Grace Cottage
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,135 per week
View stayBurnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk
Hart's House
Sleeps 10 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,136 per week
View stayWells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Holly House
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
From £1,308 per week
View staySouthrepps, Norfolk
Homestead and Black Cat Barn
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,133 per week
View stayBrancaster, Norfolk
Old Mill House
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,804 per week
View stayWells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Orchard Cottage (Wells-next-the-Sea)
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
From £1,278 per week
View stayBurnham Market, Norfolk
Perrystone Cottage
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
From £2,253 per week
View stayLittle Walsingham, Norfolk
St Hilary's House
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Games room
- Dog friendly
From £1,152 per week
View stayBurnham Market, Norfolk
Tern Cottage
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,464 per week
View stayBlakeney, Norfolk
The Ballroom
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £2,604 per week
View stayBrancaster, Norfolk
The Beach House (Brancaster)
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
From £1,896 per week
View staySnettisham, Norfolk
The Big Barn
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,300 per week
View stayBrancaster, Norfolk
The Old Manor House
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,209 per week
View stayLittle Massingham, Norfolk
The Owl House
Sleeps 10 · 3 bedrooms
- Pool
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,953 per week
View stayWells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
The Roundhouse
Sleeps 10 · 4 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,620 per week
View stayOld Hunstanton, Norfolk
The Warren
Sleeps 10 · 4 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,179 per week
View stayAylsham, Norfolk
Wild Meadow Barn
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,943 per week
View stayBrancaster, Norfolk
Saltingsgarth
Sleeps 11 · 6 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,958 per week
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Burnham Market, Norfolk
Appletrees
Sleeps 12 · 6 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £2,040 per week
View stayBodney, Norfolk
Bodney Lodge
Sleeps 12 · 5 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £2,663 per week
View stayRingstead, Norfolk
Geddings Farm Barn
Sleeps 12 · 5 bedrooms
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,445 per week
View stayBurnham Market, Norfolk
Hedgerows
Sleeps 12 · 6 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £2,040 per week
View stayWarham, Norfolk
Horse Yard Barn
Sleeps 12 · 5 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,800 per week
View stayTittleshall, Norfolk
Peak Hall
Sleeps 12 · 6 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,428 per week
View stayBrancaster, Norfolk
Seagate House
Sleeps 12 · 5 bedrooms
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,746 per week
View stayReepham, Norfolk
The Grain Store
Sleeps 12 · 6 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £2,163 per week
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Ringstead, Norfolk
The Potting Shed and Bothy
Sleeps 12 · 6 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
From £1,742 per week
View stayRoughton, Norfolk
Primrose Farm Barn (14)
Sleeps 14 · 6 bedrooms
- Pool
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £3,132 per week
View stayLittle Massingham, Norfolk
Red Stag Lodge
Sleeps 14 · 5 bedrooms
- Pool
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £2,932 per week
View stayWolterton, Norfolk
The East Wing
Sleeps 14 · 7 bedrooms
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £3,071 per week
View stayNorth Tuddenham, Norfolk
The Old Rectory (Norfolk)
Sleeps 14 · 7 bedrooms
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £1,840 per week
View stayMundesley, Norfolk
Sea View Manor
Sleeps 20 · 8 bedrooms
- Hot tub
- Pool
- Games room
- Log fire
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £9,296 per week
View stayNorth Tuddenham, Norfolk
The Old Rectory and Coach House
Sleeps 20 · 10 bedrooms
- Games room
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £2,664 per week
View stayLittle Massingham, Norfolk
Hill Farm Massingham
Sleeps 31 · 11 bedrooms
- Pool
- Log fire
- Dog friendly
- Children welcome
- Baby welcome
From £6,316 per week
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Where in Norfolk to base a group
For a group, the western end of the North Norfolk coast has the deepest choice of big houses. Burnham Market and Brancaster are the smart, foodie end of it, farm shops and good pubs, mussels and oysters landed just up the road, with Holkham's vast beach a short drive along. Wells-next-the-Sea, with its harbour, beach huts and pinewoods, is the family favourite, and Thornham, Holme and Old Hunstanton carry the same run of marsh and sand west towards the Wash. East of there the coast keeps going through Blakeney and Cley, good for seals and birds, then on to Cromer and Sheringham. Inland, Holt is a handsome Georgian market town for a day out, and a scattering of the larger halls sit out in the quieter country away from the sea, a bit further from the coast but with more room to spread into. For most groups the western coast is the easy call, with the beaches, the food and the coast path packed into one short stretch.
Large holiday homes on the North Norfolk coast
On this coast the beach does most of the work. Most of these houses are within a walk or a short drive of the sand, and North Norfolk sand comes at scale: Holkham and Brancaster run for miles at low tide, wide enough to lose the children for an afternoon and still get them back. It is quiet, working coast, more samphire and oystercatchers than deckchairs, and it takes dogs about as readily as people, which is why so many groups bring one. A few houses sit back from the water, but on a coast this size you would have to work at ending up far from a beach.
Large holiday homes in Norfolk with an indoor swimming pool
A pool you can use whatever the sky is doing earns its keep on a group trip, and a handful of the larger Norfolk houses have an indoor one. It gives you a wet afternoon the children will vanish into, and a swim that does not depend on the North Sea being in a kind mood. There are not many, so the choice is narrower than for, say, a hot tub, but if a pool is the thing that tips the group into a yes, filter for it and see what comes up for your dates.
Groups of cottages in Norfolk
Some Norfolk groups are simply too big for a single front door, and a few places here are built for exactly that. The larger halls often come with an annexe, a barn or a cottage next door as part of the let, so you can add beds to the main house and keep everyone on one patch of ground rather than spread around the county. You book each part on its own listing, so it lands as a few separate bookings, but the group still wakes up in the same place. The biggest of them run up into the low thirties. If a single roof would suit you better, start with the houses that sleep around 12, or the handful that take 20.
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Frequently asked questions
Where in Norfolk is best for a large group?
The North Norfolk coast, and its western end above all. Burnham Market, Brancaster, Wells and the villages between them hold most of the large houses and put you on the best of the beaches. Inland is quieter and has a few of the grander halls, but the coast is where the choice is.
Can you get a large Norfolk house with an indoor pool or a hot tub?
You can, but not at every house. A small number of the larger Norfolk places have an indoor pool, and rather more have a hot tub. Filter for either and the listing shows exactly what is available for your dates.
What if our group is too big for one house in Norfolk?
Several of the bigger Norfolk houses come with an adjoining cottage or barn you can add to the main house, so a group too big for one place still stays on one site. You book each part separately, but everyone is together.
Are the large Norfolk houses dog-friendly?
Most of them, yes. Norfolk is dog country, all beach and footpath, so the majority of these houses are happy to take one. Some do not, and others put a cap on numbers, so if the dog is coming, it is worth a look at the listing before you book.
How does Flock work, and how do I book?
You book straight with the owner or letting agency through the link, at their price, with nothing added by Flock. The rest is the organiser's side: Flock pulls the genuinely group-sized houses together, and the Flock app gives whoever is running the trip a way to get everyone to commit, so the plan turns into a booking and doesn't die in the chat.