diff --git a/src/coreclr/hosts/coreconsole/coreconsole.cpp b/src/coreclr/hosts/coreconsole/coreconsole.cpp
index e3813d49b3bd..a321f8b9a5db 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/hosts/coreconsole/coreconsole.cpp
+++ b/src/coreclr/hosts/coreconsole/coreconsole.cpp
@@ -176,15 +176,6 @@ class HostEnvironment
             }
     }
 
-    ~HostEnvironment() {
-        if(m_coreCLRModule) {
-            // Free the module. This is done for completeness, but in fact CoreCLR.dll 
-            // was pinned earlier so this call won't actually free it. The pinning is
-            // done because CoreCLR does not support unloading.
-            ::FreeLibrary(m_coreCLRModule);
-        }
-    }
-
     bool TPAListContainsFile(_In_z_ wchar_t* fileNameWithoutExtension, _In_reads_(countExtensions) const wchar_t** rgTPAExtensions, int countExtensions)
     {
         if (!m_tpaList.CStr()) return false;
diff --git a/src/coreclr/hosts/corerun/corerun.cpp b/src/coreclr/hosts/corerun/corerun.cpp
index e1864c81f729..4f06da7c1c74 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/hosts/corerun/corerun.cpp
+++ b/src/coreclr/hosts/corerun/corerun.cpp
@@ -152,15 +152,6 @@ class HostEnvironment
             }
     }
 
-    ~HostEnvironment() {
-        if(m_coreCLRModule) {
-            // Free the module. This is done for completeness, but in fact CoreCLR.dll 
-            // was pinned earlier so this call won't actually free it. The pinning is
-            // done because CoreCLR does not support unloading.
-            ::FreeLibrary(m_coreCLRModule);
-        }
-    }
-
     bool TPAListContainsFile(_In_z_ wchar_t* fileNameWithoutExtension, _In_reads_(countExtensions) const wchar_t** rgTPAExtensions, int countExtensions)
     {
         if (m_tpaList.IsEmpty()) return false;