Director/PDMR Shareholding

Persimmon PLC
23 April 2007

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 32.7p
per share for the year ended 31 December 2006, payable on 20 April 2007.  The
effective cost per share was 1392.6p




Name                                       Number of Shares
Mr A Applegarth                                  86
Mr D Bryant                                   9,449
Mrs D Bryant                                     31
Mr M Farley*                                 21,856
Mr M H Killoran**                            10,688
Ms J A Flanigan                                  92
Mr  D G F Thompson+                             711
Mrs M A M Thompson                               76
Miss M H Thompson                                51
Mr D Thornton                                   880
Mr J White***                                48,036
Mrs R White                                     140





*Of these shares 1,598 are held in a FURB trust.

** Of these shares 537 are held in a FURB trust.

***Of these shares 6,014 are held in a FURB trust.

+Of these shares 279 are non-beneficial



The resultant beneficial holdings are as follows:


Name                        Number of shares        % of issued share
                                                    capital

Mr A Applegarth                  3,728                0.001
Mr & Mrs D Bryant              490,162                0.16
Mr M Farley                    924,811                0.31
Mr M H Killoran &              445,453                0.15
Ms J Flanigan
Mr D G F Thompson & family      31,155                0.01
Mr D Thornton                   40,284                0.01
Mr & Mrs J White             1,997,820                0.66





Mr DGF Thompson also has a non-beneficial interest of 12,155 ordinary shares.


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