Director Shareholding

Travis Perkins PLC
21 December 2001


TO: CITY EDITORS      21st December, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                              TRAVIS PERKINS PLC

                            Directors Shareholding

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 19 December
2001 transferred 1,058 ordinary shares in the Company to employees in
satisfaction of the exercise of options under the Company's savings relating
share option scheme. The QUEST now holds 138,203 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