Persimmon Regulatory News (PSN)

3 June 2014

Directors' Shareholdings

Persimmon plc (the "Company") announces that on 2 June 2014 the Executive Directors detailed below exercised the following options over shares awarded to them under the Company's Bonus Share Scheme and Long Term Incentive Plan 2007 ("LTIP 2007"):

Also on 2 June 2014, David Jenkinson sold 2,213 shares to fund option exercise costs. In addition, Jeff Fairburn transferred 51,086 shares in the Company to his wife Jayne and 48,360 to a family trust all for nil consideration.

As a result of these transactions, the Executive Directors beneficial holdings (including interests of each Executive Directors' connected persons) in Ordinary shares are as follows:

Jeff Fairburn and Mike Killoran also each have a non-beneficial interest in 48,360 and 64,022 shares respectively.

Following the Bonus Share Scheme options exercises set out above, Persimmon (Share Scheme Trustees) Limited holds 143,886 shares in the Company representing 0.05% of the issued share capital. These shares are held in an employee benefit trust for the Company's Bonus Share Scheme. Each of the executive directors of the Company is a potential participant under the Bonus Share Scheme and is therefore regarded as having a notional interest in these shares.

The issued share capital of the Company on 3 June 2014 was 305,797,551 ordinary shares.

G N Francis

Group Company Secretary