5 Toby Ln, Aspen, CO 81611

About this listing

5 Toby Lane is a dramatic, high quality, contemporary luxury home, designed by award winning architect Bill Poss, and built by well known, longstanding Aspen Contractor, Jim Iglehart, with great attention to detail. High ceilings, expansive glass, and superb finishes include a mixture of limestone, hardwood, and carpeted floors, along with a faultless floor plan. Very large art walls, Venetian plaster walls, and over-sized, quarried limestone block walls provide interest and superb displays for large art pieces.

Every fixture and appliance is of top quality and in perfect condition. It is located in one of the few premier enclaves in Aspen inside the Castle Creek Bridge at the dead end of South 7th Street, on privately owned Toby Lane. This unique area of Aspen feels like one is in the country, yet is actually in town with all that provides. Neighborhood lots alone have sold for over $30 Million. Toby Lane is even more private with only 2 homes at the top of the gated and superbly landscaped driveway. It backs up to the land on Shadow Mountain that is too steep to be built on, according to the Pitkin County Code, and feels much more private and much larger than the 1 acre lot size that it is. The sun sets hours later up on the Toby Lane bench in the winter than in downtown Aspen, yet there is still pizza and Chinese food delivery. The free Aspen Downtowner shuttle is available on call, even though downtown is within walking or biking distance.

Easy access to the Marolt Open Space is available, where there are well maintained cross-country skiing trails in the winter, and walking/jogging trails the rest of the year that allow off-leash dog use all year long. Additionally, there is easy access to fishing on Castle Creek. As Aspen’s largest park, the Marolt Open Space has areas for river-side picnics, a community garden, cross-country skiing, hiking, and mountain-biking trails, also with seating areas for quiet contemplation. It’s fun to explore the Historic Holden Marolt buildings and the remains of the historic Lixiviation Works from the silver mining years. Altogether, Marolt Park is a 34-acre, dog-friendly, neighborhood delight. 5 Toby Lane is a timeless contemporary home in immaculate, like-new condition, having been custom built for the existing owners.

They have taken great care of the home, and it has had very light use. The furniture has been recently updated and is negotiable in the purchase. The exterior was carefully designed to be as maintenance free as possible. This home was built to last, not with wood frame, but with steel framing, which supports the massive limestone blocks on the walls inside and out. The home was conceived by the owners for their family’s use and enjoyment. It was not a spec home, and that is evident when you see it. No detail or system has been overlooked. It has air conditioning, gas-fired radiant floor heat, humidification, gas-fired snowmelt in the courtyard, walkway, and parking area, indoor/outdoor air exchange for the introduction of fresh air into the tight, solidly constructed home, and gas-fired forced air to bring the home quickly up to temperature in the event the owners have been away and the radiant floor heat has been set at lower temperatures.

Lower energy use demonstrates the well insulated construction and the efficiency of the systems. The roof is a ventilated, zinc oxide roof. Ice dams and icicles that are common on lesser homes, are not a problem here. There is also a central vacuum system. A newly installed Lutron and Sonos system operate the lights and sounds with one touch lighting and blind operation, along with unlimited music