Directors' Dealings

Travis Perkins PLC
9 December 1999

Travis Perkins PLC ('the Company')

On 8 December 1999 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') acquired by
subscription on the same day, at a price of 663 pence per share, a total of
90,914 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company all of which are to be
used to satisfy options exercised under the Company's savings-related share
option scheme.  As potential beneficiaries under the QUEST, each executive
director of the Company is treated as being interested in all of the shares
acquired by the QUEST.  As of today's date, the QUEST holds 90,914 shares in
the Company.

The directors of the Company who may be considered to be potential
beneficiaries of the shares in this notification are:

A Travis
P N Hampden Smith
E C Adams
F J McKay

9 December 1999