Director/PDMR Shareholding

Persimmon PLC
21 April 2006


Directors' shareholdings

Persimmon plc ('the Company') announces that the following Directors/persons
discharging managerial responsibilities and/or their wives and family took up
the following number of Ordinary shares instead of the final dividend of 19.0p
per share for the year ended 31 December 2005, payable on 21 April 2006. The
effective cost per share was 1342.8p

                                                        Number of shares
Mr A Applegarth                                         50
Mrs D Bryant                                            25
Mr D Davidson*                                          715
Mr M H Killoran*                                        315
Mr D G F Thompson**                                     418
Mrs M A M Thompson                                      45
Miss M H Thompson                                       30
Mr D Thornton                                           517

*All of these shares are held in FURB trusts.
** Of these shares 164 are non-beneficial

The resultant beneficial holdings are as follows:

                            Number of shares         % of issued share capital
Mr A Applegarth                      3,603                               0.001
Mr D Bryant                        440,828                                0.15
Mr D Davidson                   16,176,975                                5.48
Mr M H Killoran                    387,108                                0.13
Mr D G F Thompson                   30,336                                0.01
Mr D Thornton                       38,151                                0.01

Mr DGF Thompson also has a non-beneficial interest of 11,746 ordinary shares.



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