George Alfred Rose [also known as George A. Rose] was born in Cottenham Park, Wimbledon, Surrey [now London], England on 23 January 1894. It is not known where or with whom he trained as an architect. He qualified immediately after World War One and in the early 1920s collaborated with the architect Archibald Victor Farrier (1897-1987) in the design of flats for Hampstead Garden Suburb. In 1934 Rose also submitted an unsuccessful entry in a competition to design the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, which was ultimately won by the Modernist architects Serge Chermayeff & Erich Mendelsohn. In 1938 Rose came third in a competition to design 20 houses on the Kingston by-pass
Rose was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1919. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1931. He retired from practice in 1964.
A 'Design for a Post-war House' by Rose was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1943.
Rose's address was given as 54 King’s Road, Wimbledon, Surrey in 1920 and 1926; 18 Naylor House. Larkhall Estate, London in 1930; and "Southover'' Chelsfield Hill, Green Street Green, Chelsfield, Kent in 1939 and 1965.
Several houses in Chelsfield, Kent (1920s and 1930s); Brittenden Close, a retirement home in Orpington, Kent (1955)
Who's Who in Architecture 1923. Edited by Frederick Chatteron. London: The Architectural Press, 1923
Who's Who in Architecture 1926. Edited by Frederick Chatteron. London: The Architectural Press, 1926