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Cottage Garden Cattery & Kennels

Cottage Garden Cattery & Kennels is licensed by West Northamptonshire Council for cat boarding and dog boarding in Little Houghton. The council's most recent inspection awarded it 3 stars out of 5.

Across Northamptonshire, 77% 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 December 2026, 5 months away. 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: "Cottage Garden Cattery Northants is a family run cattery business based near Northampton in Northants with over40 years experience with handling cats." We reproduce that as a summary of what it says about itself, not as anything we have checked.

Its site advertises 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.

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

Its website publishes a rate of £4 per day. Very few licensed operators publish prices at all, so this is unusually transparent.

We read 11 pages of its website on 2 August 2026, about 9,180 words in total, and extracted 10 details from them.

We last read West Northamptonshire Council's register 5 months ago, so treat the expiry date in particular as indicative rather than current.

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 Websites go out of date — confirm when you book.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 Cottage Garden Cattery & Kennels charge?

Cottage Garden Cattery & Kennels publishes rates of £4 per day on its own website. The exact quote is “Should you require medication added to your pet(s) food we cannot accept any liability should your pet(s) not consume it, this service is included in booking price.If you pet requires a tablet given orally there will be a £4 per day charge.”. Rates on a business's own site can be out of date — confirm when you book.
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Where is Cottage Garden Cattery & Kennels?

Its website gives the address as 3 Orchard Cottages, Little Houghton NN7 1AL.
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How do I contact Cottage Garden Cattery & Kennels?

Its website lists contact by phone on 01604 891420 and by email at enquiries@northants-cattery.co.uk.
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Is a deposit required?

According to its website: “Any bookings made with a deposit paid will be honoured at the price quoted.”
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What vaccinations does my pet need?

According to its website: “All pets must be up to date with their yearly vaccination”
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Is the business insured?

According to its website: “Please note all pets boarded are not insured for any vet fees or cremation fees whilst in our care.”
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What is the cancellation policy?

According to its website: “Refunds will be given in full if 15 days notice has been given, No refund if cancellation after 14 days.”
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Do you offer a collection and delivery service?

Yes, a collection and delivery service is available.
Summarised from their website

What type of accommodation do you offer?

Individually heated pens, both indoors and outdoors, and pet beds.
Summarised from their website

Do you have a vet on call?

Yes, a vet is on call 24 hours.
Summarised from their website

What standard of cleanliness do you maintain?

A high standard of cleanliness.
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

12 March 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 West Northamptonshire 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.