I think the centralizer in $\mathbb{C}S_{N}$ is isomorphic to $M_{(N-1)!}(\mathbb{C}H)$, that is the full matrix ring of size $(N-1)! \times (N-1)!$, where the individual matrix entries are elements of the group algebra $\mathbb{C}H$.
Geoff Robinson
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