penthouse

Enclosed area on top of a building. A penthouse can be an apartment on the roof or top floor of a building or a structure on the roof housing the top of an elevator shaft, air-conditioning equipment, or stairs leading to the roof. A penthouse is usually set back from the vertical face of a building, but as a real-estate term, penthouse may refer to any top floor, regardless of setbacks. Though the word now often suggests a luxurious apartment with a panoramic view, historically a penthouse was a lean-to, shed, or other small structure attached to a comparatively large building.

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Penthouse may refer to:

• Penthouse (magazine), a men's magazine
• Penthouse apartment, a special apartment on the top floor of a building
• Penthouse (film), a 1933 film starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
• Penthouse (album), an album by Luna

Penthouse also refers to a part of a real tennis a/k/a court tennis facility -- specifically: Any of the sloping roofs at the side of a real tennis court.