Director/PDMR Shareholding

Persimmon PLC
17 March 2006


Directors' shareholdings

Persimmon plc ('the Company') announces that on 16 March 2006 it was advised
that on the same day, John White, Mike Farley, John Millar, Mike Killoran and
David Bryant executive directors sold the following number of ordinary shares in
the Company at an average price of £13.84 per share and therefore they are no
longer beneficially or non-beneficially interested in such shares. These
directors have informed the Company that they sold these shares in order to
settle tax liabilities on the recent vesting of share rights.

Mr J White        162,730
Mr M P Farley      91,731
Mr J Millar        56,400
Mr M Killoran      40,000
Mr D G Bryant       8,700


On the same day David Thornton, a person discharging managerial responsibilities
('PDMR') exercised share options granted to him under the Company's Executive
Share Option schemes. Details are set out below:

Name         Date of Exercise     No.Of options   Exercise Price     Scheme

D Thornton  16.03.06              20,000          £2.35             1997 Scheme
            16.03.06              40,000          £1.96             1988 Scheme

The Company was advised that Mr Thornton sold the resultant 60,000 shares at
£13.85 on 16 March 2006 and is therefore no longer beneficially or
non-beneficially interested in such shares. Excluding LTIP Awards, as a result
of the above, Mr Thornton holds options over 846 ordinary shares.

The resultant beneficial shareholdings of all of the above following these
transactions are as follows:

                            Number of shares         % of issued share capital
Mr J White                      1,266,943                                 0.43
Mr M P Farley                     800,620                                 0.27
Mr J Millar                       702,094                                 0.24
Mr M Killoran                     386,793                                 0.13
Mr D G Bryant                     440,803                                 0.15
Mr D Thornton                      37,634                                 0.01




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