Inside the reveal of Riber Castle, a Derbyshire ruin now stuffed with swish heritage apartments

In the last scene of Shane Meadows’ 2004 cult classic Dead Man’s Shoes, a derelict Riber Castle looms over a grisly face off between Paddy Considine’s Richard and the final gang member he has vowed to dispatch.

Then the Derbyshire castle was a storybook ruin, equal parts striking and sad, with tumbledown walls and a presumed terminal entry on the ‘At Risk’ register.