Cameron

Cameron Farmhouse is a two-storey and attic farmhouse, built between 1830 and 1840, located in central Fife. It is a three-bay structure of simple classical proportions, with a central timber door. The principal elevation is constructed of neat, coursed rubble with raised margins, narrow quoins, and droved ashlar dressings. A single-storey, piended outshot projects from the west gable, featuring one window above, and two windows to the east gable. Both gables also contain a small attic window. The rear elevation has a single-storey lean-to outshot with a timber door, a tall, narrow stair window, and three small, square ground-floor windows that indicate the former locations of the larder and laundry rooms. Most of the windows are timber sash and case units with a 12-pane glazing pattern, while smaller windows are fixed, four-pane timber units. Ashlar skews are visible on the gables, and the ashlar chimney stacks have moulded cornices. The roof is covered with grey slate in diminishing courses.

The interior, observed in 2021, retains a relatively intact decorative scheme, featuring carved rosette detailing on the door frames and timber fireplaces. A recessed niche is present in the master bedroom, and there is a good quality turned staircase leading to the attic floor. The ground floor retains intact dairy, larder, and laundry rooms, featuring flagstone floors, timber doors, and stone shelving. The outshot to the west gable has a two-leaf timber door.

Cameron Farm has been an agricultural settlement since at least the 17th century. According to the Second Statistical Account of Scotland (1845), the name of Cameron Parish likely derives from the farm, which was owned by Andrew Law of St Andrews in 1640. This account further indicates that the farmhouse, steading, and farmland were erected and significantly improved around 1832.

The 19th century witnessed significant improvements in Scottish farming practices, transitioning from subsistence farming to larger, commercial operations. The 1853 Ordnance Survey map shows the farmhouse, steading, and farm cottages in their current locations. The farm buildings were described as a two-story farmhouse with offices and a threshing machine, situated on a farm of approximately 365 acres of arable land tenanted by Henry Miller and owned by the East Anstruther Sea Box Society. The farm has remained in continuous agricultural use since then and had not been tenanted as of 2022.