| House | $820,500  |
| Land | $485,000  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Barkers Creek | $935,200 |
| Elphinstone | $787,100 |
| Harcourt | $814,700 |
| Harcourt North | $1,066,600  |
| Sutton Grange | $572,800 |
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| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - May 27, 1999 Faraday Primary School No.797 is a single-room school constructed of local granite in 1869. The building was designed by notable architect/engineer Thomas Bingham Muntz. It has a gable roof clad in galvanised iron, multi-paned windows and consists of a classroom and entrance porch; the interior is lined in timber and plasterboard. It operated as a Common School until it was taken over by the Education Department in 1873 as a State School. The school was operated by the Education Department until its official closure in 1976. Faraday Primary School is of historical, architectural and social significance to the State of Victoria. Faraday Primary School No.797 is historically significant for its association with the Common School phase of educational provision between 1862 and 1872. Prior to the introduction of full state-funded education by the Education Act of 1872, the provision of education depended on a mix of local initiative and government funding. The Faraday School reflects in its fabric and layout both the prescriptions of the Board of Education and the cooperative efforts of a small community to provide themselves with community facilities and education for their children. The plan for the building of the Faraday School was influenced by central government regulations, but it also demonstrates a typical use of local materials and craftsmanship at a time when local communities in Victoria were isolated from manufacturing centres. It is important as a heritage place for its ability to demonstrate the spread of education in the 1860s and 1870s to all parts of the state. The Faraday Primary School is architecturally significant as one of only two Common Schools constructed of granite in Victoria. Faraday Primary School No.797 is also a good representative example of a Common School, exhibiting the principal characteristics of Common School design, being executed in local materials and of the period 1862 to 1872. Its rectangular form, dimensions, placement of windows and fireplace and lack of ornamentation are typical of Common Schools of the period. The school is also significant for its association with architect/engineer Thomas Muntz. Muntz designed both Faraday and Sutton Grange Primary Schools while employed as engineer for the Shire of Metcalfe and went on to become the contractor for the Coode Canal, the engineer for the Melbourne Tramway in 1883 and was a founding member the Victorian Institute of Surveyors. Faraday Primary School is socially significant for its association with the kidnapping of six pupils and a teacher in October 1972, all of whom were held for a ransom of $1 million. Although teacher and students escaped unharmed, the event focussed attention on the lack of security for isolated single teacher schools and hastened the closure of some rural schools with small enrolments. |
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