Director Shareholding

Travis Perkins PLC
22 December 2000


                              TRAVIS PERKINS PLC                              
                               (the 'Company')                                

On 20 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 3,854 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 209,862 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