Pend

Pend is a Scottish architectural term referring to a passageway that passes 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.

A pend in Edinburgh for both vehicles and 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 typical pedestrian-only pend in Broxburn, West Lothian

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.

Etymology

The OED suggests that the etymology of the word is probably related to the archaic verb pend - "arch, arch over, vault", this in turn being derived from the French pendre, Latin pendēre "to hang", (from which also derives the word pendulum).[4]


References
  1. Town and Regional Planning Programme, University of Dundee. "Conservation Glossary, entry for "pend"". Archived from the original on 1997-02-12. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
  2. "Commercial property listing for Arbroath, Scotland". 2020-04-28. Archived from the original on 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  3. "Residential property listing for Campbeltown, Scotland". 2020-04-29. Archived from the original on 2020-04-29. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  4. OED, online edition, draft revision December 2007, entries for pend, n2 and pend, v2' '


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