Director Shareholding

Persimmon PLC
29 April 2003


Directors' shareholdings

Persimmon plc announces that on 25 April 2003 the following directors and/or
their wives took up the following number of Ordinary 10p shares in lieu of the
final dividend of 10.4p per share for the year ended 31 December 2002, payable
on the same date.

 Mr D H Davidson                                         1037*
 Mr J White                                              788*
 Mr M H Killoran                                         2038**
 Ms J Flanigan (partner of M H Killoran)                 86
 Mrs D Bryant (wife of D G Bryant)                       31


*These shares are held in a FURB trust, **525 of these shares are held in a FURB
trust.

The effective cost per share was £3.96.

The resultant beneficial holdings are as follows:

                                      Number of shares     % of issued share
                                                                     capital

Mr D H Davidson                             17,405,830                 6.16%
Mr J White                                     827,096                 0.29%
Mr M H Killoran                                120,012                 0.04%
Mr D G Bryant                                  328,115                 0.12%



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