Farmsteading, Cameron

Cameron farm steading, built between 1830 and 1840, likely incorporates earlier fabric and represents a significant phase in the farm's development. Located in central Fife, the farmstead comprises a rectangular range with a central cattle court. The north elevation is two stories high and features a segmental-arch pend providing access to the inner court. Above the pend are three segmentally arched cartsheds, now concealed by later metal doors, and five loft windows. A loft door and two windows are located at the ramped west end. The inner north range has four doors, three windows, and three blocked windows. This north range is topped with a piended slated roof and features an ashlar stack. The west range shows remnants of an early mechanical threshing machine and, to the southwest, remains of timber animal stalls. The east range of the quadrangle is incomplete, with a section towards the north end roofless and partially missing. A rubble-built cattle shed occupies the courtyard, covered by a later metal roof. A small, detached former byre to the east of the courtyard is currently roofless, having previously had a piended roof covered with pantiles.

Cameron Farm has been an agricultural settlement since at least the 17th century. Records indicate that the name Cameron Parish likely derives from the farm, which was owned by Andrew Law of St Andrews in 1640. The Second Statistical Account of Scotland (1845) suggests that the farmhouse and steading were erected, and the farmland significantly improved, within the fourteen years prior to the account's compilation, giving a likely construction date around 1832.

The 19th century saw a shift in Scottish farming from subsistence to commercial practices, with innovations in land use, drainage, crop rotation and animal husbandry. The 1853 Ordnance Survey map shows the farmhouse, steading and cottages in their present locations. The farm buildings were described in the Ordnance Survey Name Book as a large, two-story farmhouse with offices, a threshing machine, and extending to approximately 365 acres of arable land, then tenanted by Henry Miller and belonging to the East Anstruther Sea Box Society. The farm has remained in agricultural use continuously since then; the farmhouse has been vacant for several years as of 2022.