 In 1885 , Balfour began a professional partnership with Hugh Thackeray Turner , which lasted until Balfour 's death . Balfour had been a member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings since his undergraduate days in Cambridge , and Turner was the Society 's secretary . Together the two men were engaged to rebuild Ampton Hall in Suffolk , which had been destroyed by fire Their design , in a restrained Jacobean style , was Balfour 's only major country house commission . 
