Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a house.

1786		Proc. Old Bailey 22 Feb. 396/1: Lyons said, let us go and put Bower's wife flash [...] and at the same time we may do his panney [...] What do you mean by doing his panney? — Panney is the meaning of the house, they call the house the panney.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1812		Vaux Vocab. of the Flash Lang.
1819		P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 34: ‘[A] bob, [...] or even a mag will be acceptable to send the Ould one to his panny comfortable’.
1822		Tom and Jerry; A Musical Extravaganza 55: Pannies, poor apartments.
1830		Egan Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 119: The city and vest-end swell all patronise my Panny – that is, my Assembly Room.
1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 72: PANNY, a house — public or otherwise.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859].
1873		Sl. Dict.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 56: Panny, a house.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.

2. a burglary; thus do a panny v., to rob a house.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Panney, a house, to do a Panney: to Rob a house. Cant.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) [as 1786].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1786].
1830		Lytton Paul Clifford I 35: Ranting Rob, poor fellow, was lagged for doing a panny!
c.1838		G.W.M. Reynolds ‘The House Breaker’s Song’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 122: I ne’er was a nose, for the reg’lars came / Whenever a pannie was done.
1844		Leeds Times 22 June 6/1: Aye Jack, thou wert a rollin kiddy once, / And nearly wert thou lagged for doing the panny.
c.1850		Peeping Tom (London) 32 128/2: [G]entlemen engaged in [...] doing a panny, making a reader, or picking up a cat and her kittens — the cat being a quart pot and the kittens pints!
1852		Launceston Examiner (Tas.) 24 Dec. 862/2: We presume this means by putting a pistol to their heads and demanding their money - that is, ‘do a pannie’.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1873		Sl. Dict.