pend

{{short description|Passageway through a building}}

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File:Pend merchant street edinburgh.jpg for both vehicles and pedestrians]]

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{{cite web |url=http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glossary/pend.html |title=Conservation Glossary, entry for "pend" |author=Town and Regional Planning Programme, University of Dundee |accessdate=2008-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970212203357/http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glossary/pend.html |archive-date=1997-02-12 |url-status=dead }} 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".{{cite web | url=https://www.novaloca.com/retail-premises/for-sale-or-to-let/arbroath/215-217-high-st/171718 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428085725/https://www.novaloca.com/retail-premises/for-sale-or-to-let/arbroath/215-217-high-st/171718 | archive-date=2020-04-28 | date=2020-04-28 | access-date=2020-04-28 | title=Commercial property listing for Arbroath, Scotland | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=http://www.argyll-property.com/Schedule.asp?pageID=Sales&refno=1121| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429114011/http://www.argyll-property.com/Schedule.asp?pageID=Sales&refno=1121 | archive-date=2020-04-29 | date=2020-04-29 | access-date=2020-04-29 | title=Residential property listing for Campbeltown, Scotland}}

Image:Pend-in-east-main-street-broxburn-scotland-28-04-2020.jpg, 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.