Director Shareholding

Persimmon PLC
01 March 2005


Persimmon plc (the 'Company') announces that on 28 February 2005 the following
shares vested under the rules of the Company's executive directors' annual bonus
arrangements:-

Name                                                     Number of bonus
                                                         shares vesting



J White                                                        188,362
M P Farley                                                     113,447
J Millar                                                        77,988
M H Killoran                                                    54,968
D G Bryant                                                      27,179

As a result of these transactions, the interests of the directors (and their
spouses/partners) in shares of the Company are as follows:-


Name                                 Number of             Percentage of
                                      shares                Issued Share
                                                               Capital

J White                            1,383,243                      0.48%
M P Farley                           795,305                      0.28%
J Millar                             659,425                      0.23%
M H Killoran                         282,461                      0.10%
D G Bryant                           405,353                      0.14%




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