Ernest A. Batchelder built the craftsman bungalow known as the Batchelder House in 1909 in Pasadena, CA. The exterior of the main house is covered mainly with cedar shakes. The street facade is simple except for the chimney, made of clinker brick and boulders and decorated with Mercer Tiles.

Inside, the living room of the Batchelder House is dominated by the fireplace, which is adorned with Batchelder's sombre brown common tile, patterned tiles "Viking Ship" and "Italian Pattern," and tiles depicting two St. Mark's lions holding shields, a rabbit (Ernest’s logo), and a lyre (a nod to his wife’s musical interest). Other house features are the metal lamps and dining room chandelier, designed by Batchelder and carried out by his metal worker, Douglas Donaldson.

Batchelder’s personal designs continue to the dining room, where tiles in the “Hunting” pattern are used. Outside the dining room is a sort of buttress in tapestried brick with a panel of Batchelder's best "Mayan" tiles of the 1920s.

The property includes an apartment, originally a kiln house used to produce Batchelder tiles until neighbors objected to the smoke from the kilns, and a combination garage and guest house (built in 1927). The garage/guest house structure was designed similarly to the main house except that the brick walls exhibit Batchelder’s Spanish Colonial, Mayan, and Art Deco tiles.