Shanks House
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| name =Shanks House
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| image =Gates to Shanks House - geograph.org.uk - 496191.jpg
| caption =The gates to Shanks House
| locmapin = Somerset
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| coordinates = {{coord|51|02|19|N|2|21|11|W|display=inline,title}}
| location =Cucklington, Somerset, England
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| built =17th century
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| designation1 =Grade I Listed Building
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| designation1_date =24 March 1961
| designation1_number =1222369
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Shanks House in Cucklington, Somerset, England is a Grade I listed building.{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1222369|title=Shanks House|work=historicengland.org.uk|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2008-10-12}}
The first written records of the house date from the middle of the 16th century. In 1546 the house and {{convert|50|acre}} of land was sold to Robert Kemys, whose descendants sold it to the Watts family who held it until it passed into the Grant-Dalton family by marriage and through generations of descendants until the 20th century.{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18751 |title=Cucklington |author=C R J Currie, R W Dunning (Editors), A P Baggs, M C Siraut |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1999 |work=A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 7: Bruton, Horethorne and Norton Ferris Hundreds |accessdate=23 December 2012 }} {{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=168-ddbrcr&cid=-1#-1| title=Family papers of Harrington family of Kelston and Grant - Dalton family of Cucklington | publisher=The National Archives | accessdate=23 December 2012}}
During the 20th century it has been owned by the Sutton and Morley families{{cite web|title=A few careful owners: historic country houses for sale|date=15 April 2010 |url=http://www.countrylife.co.uk/news/article/450749/A-few-careful-owners-historic-country-houses-for-sale.html|publisher=Country Life|accessdate=23 December 2012}}
The two-story house with attics underwent major works in the 17th and 18th centuries, including refitting by Nathaniel Ireson.