As nouns the difference between pantry and spence

is that pantry is a small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to food storage and/or storing kitchenware. Since the pantry is not typically temperature-controlled (unlike a refrigerator or root cellar), the foods stored in a pantry are usually shelf-stable staples such as grains, flours, and preserved foods while spence is a buttery or pantry.

As a proper noun Spence is

short form of the male given name Spencer.