diff --git a/.changeset/warm-zebras-push.md b/.changeset/warm-zebras-push.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e48326ba85b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/warm-zebras-push.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+"@apollo/client": patch
+---
+
+Fix type signature of `ServerError`.
+
+In <3.7 `HttpLink` and `BatchHttpLink` would return a `ServerError.message` of e.g. `"Unexpected token 'E', \"Error! Foo bar\" is not valid JSON"` and a `ServerError.result` of `undefined` in the case where a server returned a >= 300 response code with a response body containing a string that could not be parsed as JSON.
+
+In >=3.7, `message` became e.g. `Response not successful: Received status code 302` and `result` became the string from the response body, however the type in `ServerError.result` was not updated to include the `string` type, which is now properly reflected.
diff --git a/src/link/http/__tests__/HttpLink.ts b/src/link/http/__tests__/HttpLink.ts
index dd7ffd9b8cf..c72e254f809 100644
--- a/src/link/http/__tests__/HttpLink.ts
+++ b/src/link/http/__tests__/HttpLink.ts
@@ -1083,6 +1083,11 @@ describe('HttpLink', () => {
       responseBody = JSON.parse(responseBodyText);
       return Promise.resolve(responseBodyText);
     });
+    const textWithStringError = jest.fn(() => {
+      const responseBodyText = 'Error! Foo bar';
+      responseBody = responseBodyText;
+      return Promise.resolve(responseBodyText);
+    });
     const textWithData = jest.fn(() => {
       responseBody = {
         data: { stub: { id: 1 } },
@@ -1151,6 +1156,20 @@ describe('HttpLink', () => {
         }),
       );
     });
+    itAsync('throws an error if response code is > 300 and handles string response body', (resolve, reject) => {
+      fetch.mockReturnValueOnce(Promise.resolve({ status: 302, text: textWithStringError }));
+      const link = createHttpLink({ uri: 'data', fetch: fetch as any });
+      execute(link, { query: sampleQuery }).subscribe(
+        result => {
+          reject('next should have been thrown from the network');
+        },
+        makeCallback(resolve, reject, (e: ServerError) => {
+          expect(e.message).toMatch(/Received status code 302/);
+          expect(e.statusCode).toBe(302);
+          expect(e.result).toEqual(responseBody);
+        }),
+      );
+    });
     itAsync('throws an error if response code is > 300 and returns data', (resolve, reject) => {
       fetch.mockReturnValueOnce(
         Promise.resolve({ status: 400, text: textWithData }),
@@ -1180,7 +1199,6 @@ describe('HttpLink', () => {
       );
 
       const link = createHttpLink({ uri: 'data', fetch: fetch as any });
-
       execute(link, { query: sampleQuery }).subscribe(
         result => {
           reject('should not have called result because we have no data');
diff --git a/src/link/http/parseAndCheckHttpResponse.ts b/src/link/http/parseAndCheckHttpResponse.ts
index 53e30c29082..ba9307ac9e2 100644
--- a/src/link/http/parseAndCheckHttpResponse.ts
+++ b/src/link/http/parseAndCheckHttpResponse.ts
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ export function parseHeaders(headerText: string): Record<string, string> {
 export function parseJsonBody<T>(response: Response, bodyText: string): T {
   if (response.status >= 300) {
     // Network error
-    const getResult = () => {
+    const getResult = (): Record<string, unknown> | string => {
       try {
         return JSON.parse(bodyText);
       } catch (err) {
diff --git a/src/link/persisted-queries/index.ts b/src/link/persisted-queries/index.ts
index 1aa661918dc..3123dc7bdec 100644
--- a/src/link/persisted-queries/index.ts
+++ b/src/link/persisted-queries/index.ts
@@ -177,10 +177,13 @@ export const createPersistedQueryLink = (
           }
 
           // Network errors can return GraphQL errors on for example a 403
-          const networkErrors =
-            networkError &&
-            networkError.result &&
-            networkError.result.errors as GraphQLError[];
+          let networkErrors;
+          if (typeof networkError?.result !== 'string') {
+            networkErrors =
+              networkError &&
+              networkError.result &&
+              networkError.result.errors as GraphQLError[];
+          }
           if (isNonEmptyArray(networkErrors)) {
             graphQLErrors.push(...networkErrors);
           }
diff --git a/src/link/utils/throwServerError.ts b/src/link/utils/throwServerError.ts
index b9283d16cd3..ed11631ec1b 100644
--- a/src/link/utils/throwServerError.ts
+++ b/src/link/utils/throwServerError.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 export type ServerError = Error & {
   response: Response;
-  result: Record<string, any>;
+  result: Record<string, any> | string;
   statusCode: number;
 };