Pend

In Scotland, a pend is a passageway through a building, often from a street through to a courtyard or 'back court', and may be for both vehicles and pedestrian access^[1] or exclusively pedestrians.

The term "common pend" can often be found in descriptions of Scottish property for sale, such as "a common pend shared with the residential dwellings above".^[2][3]

A pend is distinct from a vennel or a close, as it has rooms directly above it, whereas vennels and closes tend not to be covered over and are typically passageways between separate buildings. However, a 'close' also means a common entry to multi-dwelling tenement properties in Scotland.