Director Shareholding

Persimmon PLC
15 March 2002

Persimmon plc ('the Company') announces that on 13 March 2002 the undernoted
director exercised a share option granted to him under the Company's Executive
Share Option scheme. Details are set out below:

Name              No. Of options               Exercise Price           Scheme

M H Killoran        14,380                       £2.085              1988 Scheme


As a result of the above, excluding LTIP Awards, Michael Killoran holds options
over 69,433 ordinary shares and is interested in 30,256 ordinary shares of the
company.




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