Director Shareholding

Travis Perkins PLC
6 December 2001


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     6 December 2001




                      TRAVIS PERKINS PLC (the 'Company')

                           Directors' Shareholdings



The Company was today 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 on 5 December 2001
transferred 62,969 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 143,341 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:




F J McKay

P N Hampden Smith

J P Carter