Director Shareholding

Taylor Woodrow PLC
08 April 2005

                                  SCHEDULE 11

          NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS

1) Name of company

Taylor Woodrow plc

2) Name of director

Iain Napier

3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding
of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest
or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's
spouse or children under the age of 18 or in respect of a non-beneficial
interest

Shareholder

4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them (if notified)

John Grant (known as Iain) NAPIER

5) Please state whether notification relates to a person(s) connected with the
Director named in 2 above and identify the connected person(s)

No

6) Please state the nature of the transaction. For PEP transactions please
indicate whether general/single co PEP and if discretionary/non discretionary

Purchase of shares by director and the award of matching options (deliverable in
three years' time subject to achieving a defined performance criterion)under the
company's 2004 Deferred Bonus Plan in respect of the 2004 bonus year
     
a)   Purchase of 24,073 ordinary shares of 25p of Taylor Woodrow plc
b)   Grant of 1:1 Matching Option over 24,073 further such shares

7) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

24,073

8) Percentage of issued class

0.0041%

9) Number of shares/amount
of stock disposed

N/A

10) Percentage of issued class

N/A

11) Class of security

25p ordinary shares

12) Price per share

309.3785p

13) Date of transaction

8 April 2005

14) Date company informed

8 April 2005

15) Total holding following this notification

265,601

16) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

0.0452%

If a director has been granted options by the company please complete the
following boxes

17) Date of grant

8 April 2005

18) Period during which or date on which exercisable

Subject to achievement of the performance criterion, the matching option will
vest on the third anniversary of the date of grant.

19) Total amount paid (if any) for grant of the option

Nil

20) Description of shares or debentures involved: class, number

24,073 25p ordinary shares

21) Exercise price (if fixed at time of grant) or indication that price is to be
fixed at time of exercise

Nil

22) Total number of shares or debentures over which options held following this
notification

827,423

23) Any additional information

n/a

24) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

Tanya Stote
0121 600 8547

25) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification

Richard Morbey
Group Company Secretary

Date of Notification 8 April 2005


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