Director Shareholding

Travis Perkins PLC
13 December 2000



                      TRAVIS PERKINS PLC (the 'Company')

                           Directors Shareholdings

On 11 December 2000 the Company was informed that Travis Perkins Quest
Trustees Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as trustee of the
Travis Perkins Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'QUEST') had
transferred 105,065 ordinary shares in the Company to employees in
satisfaction of the exercise of options under the Company's savings related
share option scheme.  The QUEST now holds 231,716 ordinary shares in the
Company.  As potential beneficiaries under the QUEST, each executive director
of the Company is treated as being interested in all of the shares held by the
QUEST.  The directors of the Company who may be considered to be potential
beneficiaries of the shares in this notification are:

A Travis
F J McKay
P N Hampden Smith