Their work included the construction of Eltham Palace in the Art Deco style, and the post-World War II restoration of a number of bomb-damaged buildings, such as houses in the Little Cloister (Westminster Abbey), the London Charterhouse and the church of St John Clerkenwell.

[2][3] After graduating, Paget worked for a while as a bank clerk in the City of London while Seely remained at Cambridge.

[4] In the garden they built "The Shack", a tiny house intended as their country office and retreat.

[7] Seely died on 18 January 1963 and was buried in St Catherine's chapel garden at Westminster Abbey.

[18] However, he completed little further architectural work, and in 1971, aged 70, he married children's writer Verily Anderson and retired with her and her children to Templewood in Norfolk (a house originally designed by the partners for Paget's uncle), where he lived until his death in 1985.