diff --git a/pmd/etc/changelog.txt b/pmd/etc/changelog.txt
index b8b6ee5532..14047068d9 100644
--- a/pmd/etc/changelog.txt
+++ b/pmd/etc/changelog.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 Fixes for exclude-pattern
 Updates to RuleChain to honor RuleSet exclude-pattern
 Fixed bug 1988829 - Violation reported without source file name (actually a fix to ConsecutiveLiteralAppends)
+Fixed bug 1989814 - false +: ConsecutiveLiteralAppends
 
 May 20, 2008 - 4.2.2:
 
diff --git a/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/strings/xml/ConsecutiveLiteralAppends.xml b/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/strings/xml/ConsecutiveLiteralAppends.xml
index 85702f5ba5..c6b8052bb0 100644
--- a/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/strings/xml/ConsecutiveLiteralAppends.xml
+++ b/pmd/regress/test/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/strings/xml/ConsecutiveLiteralAppends.xml
@@ -796,6 +796,23 @@ public class Foo {
         sb.append('c');
         return sb.toString();
     }
+}
+     ]]></code>
+    </test-code>
+    <test-code>
+        <description><![CDATA[
+44, Appending of not String additive expressions
+     ]]></description>
+        <expected-problems>0</expected-problems>
+        <code><![CDATA[
+public class Foo {
+    public void foo(int i) {
+        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
+        sb.append("Hello");
+        sb.append(i + 1);
+        sb.append(1 + i);
+        sb.append("World");
+    }
 }
      ]]></code>
     </test-code>
diff --git a/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/strings/ConsecutiveLiteralAppends.java b/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/strings/ConsecutiveLiteralAppends.java
index 7784881ae0..9c11f7a2d1 100644
--- a/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/strings/ConsecutiveLiteralAppends.java
+++ b/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/rules/strings/ConsecutiveLiteralAppends.java
@@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ public class ConsecutiveLiteralAppends extends AbstractRule {
     private int processAdditive(Object data, int concurrentCount,
                                 SimpleNode sn, SimpleNode rootNode) {
         ASTAdditiveExpression additive = sn.getFirstChildOfType(ASTAdditiveExpression.class);
-        if (additive == null) {
+        // The additive expression must of be type String to count
+        if (additive == null || (additive.getType() != null && !TypeHelper.isA(additive, String.class))) {
             return 0;
         }
         int count = concurrentCount;