The Sally-Billy House is a weather-boarded, Federal-style, tripartite dwelling and an elegant example of a Roanoke River plantation house indicative of the prosperity of some of the residents. The house, a gable-fronted, two-story center section flanked by two one-story side gabled wings, was moved from Scotland Neck to Halifax in 1975 and restored by the DAR. The entry hall contains an elegant closed-string winder staircase with Chinese lattice banisters. The first floor consists of three rooms, a formal parlor, a dining room or an entertaining room, and a bedroom. The mantels on the first floor are transitional Georgian/Federal style with two raised panels in the friezes, fluted pilasters, and fine dentil moldings under the shelves. The two rooms upstairs in the central part of the house were probably used by the children in the family. It is furnished with period furniture.

The house was been built by Lewis Bond as part of a 12,000 acre plantation but had several owners before acquired around 1834 by William Ruffin Smith 1779-1845 and his wife Sarah Walton Norfleet, the Sally and Billy of the name of the house. Smith was a justice of the peace and a breeder of race horses who once owned a mare sired by Sir Archie, the famous race horse. He was an organizer of the historic Trinity Episcopal Church in Scotland Neck. The house was donated by Charles H. Hale to the Historical Halifax Restoration Association (HHRA) which later gave it to Historic Halifax State Site. It was moved from Scotland Neck to the historic site in the 1970s.

One interesting artifact in the house (pictured above) is of a sampler worked by Elizabeth Smith 1825-1851, a daughter of William Smith who sadly was not allowed by her father to marry the man that she fancied. Father knew best since the young man later proved to be abusive to the woman that he married.