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Bourne Hill Boarding Kennels & Cattery

Bourne Hill Boarding Kennels & Cattery is licensed by Babergh District Council for cat boarding and dog boarding in Wherstead. The council's most recent inspection awarded it 3 stars out of 5.

Across Suffolk, 81% of licensed businesses hold 4 stars or above, so this rating sits below the county norm — though a 2- or 3-star business is still fully compliant with the regulations.

Its licence runs to 31 March 2027. Longer licence terms are awarded to higher-rated operators, which is why a distant expiry date is usually a good sign in itself.

On its own website the business describes itself as: "Bourne Hill Kennels & Cattery is situated about a mile from the Orwell Bridge off the A14, near Ipswich in Suffolk. We are a small family run kennels" We reproduce that as a summary of what it says about itself, not as anything we have checked.

Its site advertises dog boarding, cat boarding.

We found no entry for this business on the ICO register of fee payers. That is common for sole traders and is not necessarily a failing, but a business holding your address and door key would normally be expected to be registered.

Under the star rating scheme a 3-star operator qualifies for a licence of up to 2 years and correspondingly fewer unannounced inspections, so the rating affects how often the council will look in as well as what it thought at the last visit.

Babergh District Council publishes an address for this licence, which is set out in full below.

Its website publishes 7 rates, from £14 per day to £42 per day. Prices come from the business's own site rather than from us, and each one is shown below with the sentence it appeared in.

We read 9 pages of its website on 2 August 2026, about 2,292 words in total, and extracted 17 details from them.

Licence record

From its own website

Rates published on its own website

These are prices the business publishes about itself, not prices we have been quoted or seen paid. Websites go out of date — confirm when you book.

Contact details from its website

Questions and answers

Answers marked from their website are the business's own words. Answers marked from published details are assembled from facts stated on their site. Answers marked summarised were written from their site's text and checked so that every figure appears in the original — but they are a summary, not a quotation, and the business's own site is authoritative.

How much does Bourne Hill Boarding Kennels & Cattery charge?

Bourne Hill Boarding Kennels & Cattery publishes rates of £14–£42 per day on its own website. The exact quote is “1 cat = £14.00 per day”. Rates on a business's own site can be out of date — confirm when you book.
From published details — source

Where is Bourne Hill Boarding Kennels & Cattery?

Its website gives the address as Bourne Hill Kennels, North Lodge, Bourne Hill, Wherstead, Ipswich, Suffolk IP2 8ND.
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How do I contact Bourne Hill Boarding Kennels & Cattery?

Its website lists contact by phone on 01473 688825.
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Is the business insured?

According to its website: “Dogs & Cats are fully insured during their stay and a vet is on call 24 hours.”
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What vaccinations does my pet need?

According to its website: “Please note we insist that all dogs are vaccinated against Kennel Cough at least a week to 10 days prior to boarding and any dogs coughing will not be allowed to board.”
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Is a deposit required?

According to its website: “A 50% deposit is required for all Christmas bookings and will be taken at the time of booking and is NON REFUNDABLE.”
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Is there a trial or settling-in visit?

According to its website: “15 kg Skinners Field & Trial Chicken and Rice £30.00”
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What happens if my dog is coughing?

Dogs coughing will not be allowed to board.
Summarised from their website

How often are dogs exercised?

Dogs are exercised daily.
Summarised from their website

Can you administer medication to my pet?

Yes, we are able to administer medication.
Summarised from their website

What payment methods are accepted?

Cash, debit or credit card, except American Express.
Summarised from their website

This page reproduces factual entries from public registers. It is not a review, a recommendation, or an endorsement, and we have no commercial relationship with the businesses listed. Council star ratings are the licensing authority's assessment of risk and compliance, not a measure of service quality. If anything here is wrong or you would like your entry removed, see our privacy page — we act on requests without argument.

Where these figures come from

Last updated

2 August 2026

• Local authority animal activity licence registers — English local authorities. Factual fields extracted from each council's published public register: trading name, licence number, licensable activity, star rating and expiry date. Where a council redacts an address — as they routinely do for home boarders operating from a residential address — the record is kept without a location and never geolocated by inference. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Operators' own public websites — The licensed businesses themselves. Factual metadata — description, opening hours, contact details and advertised services — extracted from each operator's own public website. robots.txt is checked and obeyed before every fetch, requests are rate-limited to one per host per run, and every field links back to the page it came from with the date we last checked. Claims operators make about themselves are not verified by us. Licence: Summarised, not reproduced. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Postcode geography — Office for National Statistics / Ordnance Survey, via postcodes.io. Postcodes already published in council registers are resolved to a parish or ward and coordinates. Only postcodes the council itself published are looked up. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Licence details are republished from the Babergh District Council public register under the Open Government Licence.
• Companies House and ICO entries are matched by trading name and corroborated by location; unconfirmed matches are not published.