I have a 4'X8' coop (external dimensions, I guess about 4" smaller on each wall inside) which has housed 8 or 9 heavy breed chickens for over a year. My birds only go inside the coop to lay eggs and to roost for the night...and sometimes to check on the progress of someone who is laying an egg. Because I have a well sheltered run, they can go out into the run during rain, snow and wind, and haven't seemed to suffer in really cold, Colorado winter weather. There is an attached chain-link dog run that is about another 300 square feet, but they don't like it much in when there is more than about an inch of snow.
While my chickens complain to me more in the winter because they don't get as many opportunities to free range, they have never seemed the need to peck and fuss with each other, which gives me the idea that they have more than adequate space. The roosts are pretty well packed at night, but I bet that is a good thing during cold weather.