Directors' Shareholdings

Persimmon PLC
24 October 2003

Directors' shareholdings

Scrip Dividend

Persimmon plc announces that the following directors and/or their wives took up
the following number of Ordinary 10p shares in lieu of the interim dividend of
7.0p per share for the year ending 31 December 2003, payable on 24 October 2003.

Name                                                Number of Shares
------                                              ------------------

Mr D H Davidson                                            491*
Mr J White                                                 349*
Mr M H Killoran                                          1,129**
Ms J Flanigan (partner of M H Killoran)                     78
Mrs D Bryant (wife of D G Bryant)                           13

*These shares are held in a FURB trust.
**249 of these shares are held in a FURB trust.

The effective cost per share was 577.25p
The resultant beneficial holdings following these transactions are as follows:

Name                          Number of    % of issued share capital
------                         Shares      ---------------------------
                     ------------------

Mr D H Davidson            16,606,321                5.86%
Mr J White                    827,445                0.29%
Mr M H Killoran               121,219                0.04%
Mr D G Bryant                 328,128                0.12%

SAYE Scheme

On 22 October 2003 the following directors were granted options under the
Persimmon plc 1998 SAYE scheme. The options will be exercisable from 1 December
2006 to 31 May 2007. Details are set out below:

Name                                   Number of      Option Price
------                                 Options        --------------
                             -------------------

Mr J White                                 423             £4.36
Mr J Millar                              2,115             £4.36

John White now holds options over 207,391 shares and John Millar holds options
over 7,826 shares, both figures exclude LTIP awards.



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